August 22 2013 - The Mississippi Link

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Vol. 19, No. 44
August 22 - 28, 2013
Presidents Obama, Clinton and Carter
to commemorate the 50th Anniversary
of the March on Washington
It’s official. The Mississippi
Healthcare Economy has been
launched with the Governor’s
Health Care Economic Development Summit held August
15. Governor Phil Bryant and
the Mississippi Economic
Council brought together a
collective group of hospitals,
educators, elected officials and
private enterprises positioned
to impact the new economy of
health care in Mississippi.
To establish the importance
of a “summit on healthcare,” it
was first declared that the state
of Mississippi is positioned to
be a comprehensive player in
the world of healthcare economics. This stated position
not only provides better access
to quality health resources but
also creates health based en-
trepreneurs of diverse backgrounds and cultures that can
meet the growing needs of the
state.
This kind of focus ensures
that jobs are created, wealth is
accumulated and that students
migrate toward health careers.
Dr. Tanya Scott, chief health
officer for the LeMont Scott
Group, summed up the conference, saying, “The Healthcare
industry zone act is an opportunity for both the public and
private sectors to connect in
very innovative ways. Each
community has its own personality. Clearly, the Delta’s
needs are different from Jackson’s. But there will always
be needs that this health care
Healthcare Economy
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will join King family members,
along with coalition members
and dignitaries, to honor Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to
“Let Freedom Ring” by ringing bells at 3 p.m. EST, a half-
March
“We can no longer kick
the can down the road”
By Ayesha K. Mustafaa
Editor
By Ben Minnifield
Special to The Mississippi Link
versary of the historic March on
Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream”
speech.
Obama, Clinton and Carter
will deliver remarks at the Let
Freedom Ring Commemoration and Call to Action event
at the Lincoln Memorial. They
Lumumba presents 2013-14 city budget:
Gov. Bryant officially
launched Mississippi
Healthcare Economy
Governor Phil Bryant and Holly Springs Mayor Kelvin Buck at the Governor’s Healthcare Economic Development Summit. PHOTOS BY BEN MINNIFELD
The Mississippi Link Newswire
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The
50th Anniversary March on
Washington Coalition has announced that August 28, 2013
former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter will join
President Barack Obama to
commemorate the 50th Anni-
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Mayor Chokwe Lumumba,
on Monday, August 19, introduced his 2013-14 city budget
by saying, “We can no long
keep kicking the can down
the road. We must grow, not
shrink.” Then he took on the
arduous task of explaining
why he needs a 43.3 percent
increase over last year, proposing a $502.5 million budget. Former Mayor Harvey
Johnson’s last budget was
$267 million and for 2012
represented a 3.9 percent increase over 2011.
Pointing to the dire needs
to address Jackson’s infrastructure problems, the mayor
addressed the EPA’s consent
decree that mandates $400
million to be spent on water
and sewer upgrades and repairs over 18 years. If the EPA
requirements are not met, the
city faces possibly being hit
with $800 million in EPA
penalties.
The mayor proposed an
increase in water and sewer
rates and a one-time tax increase that together could
raise more $36 million in new
revenue. The average water
bill would go from $15 to $21
per month; average sewerage
Peryn Reeves-Darby presented Hinds
County Supervisors Resolution as 2014
Distinguished Young Woman of Mississippi
rate would go from $14.50 to
$31 per month.
He said there are 1,200
miles of streets and roads that
need $20 million to maintain.
Some streets, the mayor said,
are not only too bad to drive
down but also are in such bad
shape they are too bad to walk
down. And he said maintenance will get worse if he
does not act now.
He discussed rebuilding a
new Jatran system with the
expectation of a 20 percent
increase in ridership.
Lumumba referred to the
“state of our beloved city”
which he said he discussed
with staff and directors to address Jackson’s needs. Being
mayor has caused these dire
realities to set in, as he said,
“We have to take a budget
which faces off the challenges
which we have before us, not
a budget which would simply
be politically acceptable.”
Lumumba said, “I don’t
want to be known as the person who raised rates. But I
promised to put the city first
when I was elected… It’s kinda like you know you’ve got
something that you’ve got to
buy for your house - the roof
is falling down; the sidewalk
needs to be fixed; the grass
needs to be taken
care of. And you
don’t really have
the money to do
it, but you’ve got
to do it anyway.”
The mayor said
$6.4 million in
funding can come
from school millage
decrease,
stating that the
Jackson
Public
Schools are over
funded.
Capital
projects
would Lumumba
increase by 155
percent, from $75 million to
$192 million. The general operating budget would increase
from $276 million to $311
million.
Some department budgets
will see small percentage increases, with Public Works
getting the huge climb to
$398 to meet the aforementioned needed.
The mayor said most other
departments will have relatively flat budgets, although
there is a required increase
in Public Employees’ Retirement System payments.
Councilman Tony Yarber is
chairman of the city’s budget
committee. Yarber praised the
mayor for coming forth with
the unpopular budget needs.
It’s still early in the budget
discussions, but all signs point
toward council approval.
Lumumba acknowledged
that the increase in water and
sewer fees would hit some
residents hard, particularly
the elderly and those who
are low-income recipients.
He said the city would work
to create a grant program for
nonprofits, called the Vulnerable People’s Fund, to provide utility bill assistance to
these residents.
The hike would be offset by
City budget
Ivy League students Justin Porter
and Travis Reginal are not ‘defined
by limitations perceived or real’
Editor
Inside
Hinds County Supervisor Peggy
H. Calhoun (District 3) presented
to the 2014 Distinguished Young
Woman of Mississippi a resolution
detailing the many accomplishments
made by 17-year-old Peryn ReevesDarby.
Reeves-Darby was accompanied
by Sid Wilkinson, state chairman
of Distinguished Young Women of
Mississippi. She won over 33 Mississippi high school seniors, competing
for $44,500 in college scholarships.
She was selected July 18, 2013 in a
ceremony in Meridian, Miss.
She also received the Overall
Scholastic Award and Overall SelfExpression Award. Peryn is the
daughter of Vonda Reeves-Darby
and Alvin Darby of Jackson and attends St. Andrews Episcopal School.
Reeves-Darby
New lyme disease
estimate: 300,000
cases a year
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Reeves-Darby (2nd from left) with other contestants
Reginal
Editor
Sid Wilkerson, Reeves-Darby and Hinds County Supervisor Peggy
Calhoun
Dr. King’s unfinished
‘Symphony or
Freedom’
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High school
football has
started
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Travis Reginal and Justin Porter were home this
summer; both graduated
from Murrah High School
in Jackson, both are attending Ivy League universities
of their choice and entering
their second year - Regi-
Porter
nal at Yale in New Haven,
Conn., and Porter at Harvard, in Cambridge, Mass.
Both took time to speak
about their educational journeys before leaving Jackson,
setting out for their falls sessions.
Reginal said he did his
research and for him Yale
stood out. He applied to four
schools Vanderbilt, Dartmouth, Columbia and Yale.
“Upon the recommendation
of my 10th grade teacher, I
applied and got into all four.
But I picked Yale because it
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had a good environment and
was people-friendly.”
Reginal lived in Jackson
his whole life with the majority of the time being in
South Jackson. He came
from a single family home,
raised by his mother, Nickie
Reginal, who also raised his
two younger brothers, age 16
and 10. His mother is taking
classes now to complete her
GED.
From his own environment,
he said his greatest inspiration has been his mother, “I
wanted to make my mother
proud and that has been the
inspiration. Education was
always important. She went
out of her way to make sure
I did well in school. She has
been central to my success.”
He knows that Jackson has
the reputation of being the
eighth most violent city in the
country, yet he has steered
clear of those influences.
“Knowing who I am has kept
me focused. My own mentality is that I know where I’m
trying to go and I know what
it takes to get there. I don’t
want to get caught up in the
cycles - cycle of poverty, cycle of violence.”
Reginal said he wants to
be a success story that will
inspire others, but he doesn’t
take himself too serious. “I
just want to enjoy the college years and make the most
out of them. I’ll do my best
and at the end of the day, it
is not about me meeting the
expectations of others. I cannot please everybody or a lot
of people.”
He said he tried to stay well
rounded in order to be a good
candidate for college. “I’ve
played piano and played
some sports - soccer and ran
cross country, but college is
a total package deal. Sports
were good for team building
skills.”
Reginal wants to major in
sociology and further down
the road work with urban
youth. After completing college, he can see himself coming back to Mississippi and
teaching here. He wants to
make a difference. He wants
to continue until he earns a
Ph.D. in sociology.
To get through the challenges, Reginal said, “I rely
on God. I’m not some super
kid; I’m an ordinary guy.”
In Jackson, he attends “We
Care Church.” Reginal said
the biggest culture shock for
him was to meet students
who called themselves agnostics or who did not believe in God. “This has been
eye opening, but it shows
that people are different from
others.”
On the college social scene,
he said for the most part he
has encountered good influences from the other students
at Yale. “I just know to hold
on to my own values.”
Financial aid at Yale has
been generous, so finances
right now is not Reginal’s
biggest worry; he said the
toughest times financially is
to get plane tickets home.
Reginal said his best advice to high school students
is to learn how to think critically. “Many may not have
the opportunity to think critically in class and will get
pushed back on their ideas.
Know how to respond when
others don’t agree with you.
Also learn how to write college essays.”
Reginal complimented his
high school teachers who
always encouraged him and
pushed him and told him,
“You can do this.” He is present on Facebook and will respond to students seeking advice. Visit him at Facebook.
Reginal hitting the books
com/TravisReginal.
Porter explained that he
chose Harvard through an
“impulsive decision.” He
kept a very high GPA in high
school and had very strong
extra curricular involvement.
He wanted to see how far he
could stretch himself, so he
decided to apply.
He said his teachers were
supportive. “That is what I
appreciated about Murrah.
The teachers cared about the
students’ well being; they
were encouraging. And when
I decided to embark on these
lofty goals, they supported
me.”
Porter applied early to
Harvard and got back an acceptance before he sent off
any other applications. So he
looked no further.
Culture shock for him in
going to Cambridge centered
around the differences in the
city life compared to Jackson
where he grew up. “There
is a lot more walking. My
accent immediately distinguished me as someone from
the south, which is not a good
or bad thing - it just makes
things more interesting.”
Porter immersing himself in a book
He also spoke about the
popularity of different sports
- soccer is big in Cambridge;
football is big in Jackson.
But the bigger difference
came in the distribution of
wealth among people. “That
was bigger than I imagined,”
he surmised.
“There wasn’t any sense
of anger or jealousy,” Porter
said. “But the levels of poverty and lack of resources like
health care are of concern. In
the face of all this wealth,
there were so many homeless people in Cambridge.
That struck me as sad. There
is so much inequality in the
United States.”
Porter said this inequality
revealed a certain callousness demonstrated by policy
makers who know these people need help.
College scenes can be derailing to some students, and
Porter said he was protected
by his natural inclination to
be an introvert. He had to
work to get beyond his own
insecurities, get past his own
comfort zone.
But he said, “Most people
are not as focused on you as
you may think they are. You
have to be more open minded
and receptive to people who
are different from you. I have
made some good friends.”
He has not declared a major yet but is considering
economics with an emphasis on environmental science
and public policy. During
his summer months back in
Jackson, he did research in
the science labs at UMMC;
he said originally he was
considering a major in premed.
“But as a career I would
like to work for a socially
conscious consultant group
or for a social enterprise. I
think I will do some traveling - maybe for 20 years. And
then I’ll probably come back
to Mississippi.”
His biggest challenges
have been to adjust to the
courses and the social setting. “I’ve had to work really
hard and interact with my
professors. It has also been
really rewarding.”
The most influential people in his life have been his
parents, Sarah Perkins and
Johnny Porter. “My mom has
been most influential in my
life. She has played an enormous role in my development and growth. My father
has also been there to support
me. Both parents sacrificed a
lot for me to be where I am.”
His advice to students back
in Mississippi who are called
disadvantaged, Justin said,
“The most powerful constraints are the ones we place
on ourselves. There is an old
saying that the person who
thinks he can and the person
who thinks he can’t or both
most likely correct.
“It is about knowing that
even if I didn’t go to a private
school, I can still make it. I
can still compete even with
my background. Work diligently. Be kind and respectful. Do your research. Don’t
be defined by perceived or
real limitations. Limitations
are arbitary.”
Porter said he puts in a ridiculous number of hours in
study at Harvard and admitted, “That is just the way it
works.”
He welcomes local students
to stay in touch with him on
Facebook.com/JustinPorter.
LOCAL
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“A Place At The Table” shines
light on hunger in America
By Stephanie R. Jones
Contributing Writer
It may seem odd to imagine conversations about hunger and obesity
being intertwined but these two issues that disproportionately affect
poor and minority populations, especially in Mississippi, are indeed
thought to be bedfellows. And the
tie that binds the two is “food insecure” households in which families
often don’t know where their next
meal will come from.
More than 50 million Americans suffer from food insecurity, 16
million of them children. Yet, 23.5
million kids and teenagers are overweight or obese.
The problem is especially acute
in Mississippi, labeled the most
obese state in the nation and where
the Mississippi Delta region has the
highest food insecurity level in the
nation.
In an effort to engage Mississippi
in a conversation about food insecurity, obesity and hunger, My Brother’s Keeper, Inc., brought together
local residents to take their place in
the fight to end hunger and ensure
that all children and families have
access to healthy, affordable foods.
My Brother’s Keeper, in association with Participant Media and Active Voice, hosted a free community
screening of “A Place at the Table”
at Tougaloo College Thursday, Aug.
15.
The screening was part of Participant Media’s “Take Your Place”
Social Action Campaign, which
uses the acclaimed documentary to
inspire community conversations
about hunger and obesity and get
people involved in efforts to address
this systemic problem.
The documentary by filmmakers
Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush
turns a light on the face of hunger in
American, a look that is very different from what one normally indentifies with hunger.
Hungry children in America
don’t look like the emaciated images broadcast from around the globe.
American children who struggle to
get enough to eat are more likely to
be obese because what their families can afford to eat is high in calories and low in nutrients.
There’s the rancher in Colorado,
who had to take a night job as a janitor to help put food on his family’s
table; the family’s grocery budget is
half what it used to be. Then there’s
Barbie Izquierdo, the Philadelphia
single mother of two young children, who recently got a job that put
her $2 over the income limit to keep
receiving food stamps.
She also enrolled in school to
qualify herself for a better paying
job but she said, “I can’t tell my
children I’m going to school so you
all can have food in two years.”
Deja Abdul-Haqq, program manager of environmental and policy
change for My Brother’s Keeper,
which works to combat health disparities, said another difference in
hunger in this country is the exis-
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City budget
a one-time tax cut for Jackson
Public Schools, which doesn’t
need its full millage this year
because of a recent debt refinancing. By law, the school
system’s operational millage
is capped, and it can only col-
lect as many additional mills
as it needs for debt service.
All city council members
were present except LaRita
Cooper-Stokes.
A public hearing on the
proposed budget is set for a
Sept. 5 hearing at 6 p.m. at
City Hall.
The council is scheduled to
vote on the proposal Sept. 12
at 10 a.m. A budget must be
in place by Sept. 15, according to city law.
CITY OF JACKSON 2013-2014
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Thursday, August 22, 2013
Izquierdo struggles to feed her two children.
tence of “food
deserts.”
There’s plenty
of food to go
around in America, she said, but
high-quality, nutritious food is expensive and hard
to come by in
some communities. Full-service
grocery
stores
are non-existent
in many low-income and minoriOdom of Jackson Heart Study
ty neighborhoods
but they are dotted with convenience stores that
sell a daily fare
of unhealthy fried
foods.
During
the
discussion after
the screening Abdul-Haqq asked
participants
to
describe the emotion the film left
with them. “Frus- Rosie Casey daughter of Colorado rancher
trated, mad,” said
Darcel Odom of
the Jackson Heart
Study. “Anger,”
said Steve Riesman of Tougaloo’s political science department.
“Anger,” echoed
Tonya
Adams
of My Brother’s
Keeper.
Their
anger Williams struggles from food insecurity
stems from the
fact that food is
who are embarrassed to say they are
available but unaffordable to many struggling,” she said. “But there got
and that government programs de- to be too many nights when I was
signed to help fall short of stated feeding the kids and skipping meals
goals.
myself,” she said.
Jackson resident Lorraine WilThe screening and discussion
liams said she is currently struggling were made possible as part of a
with food insecurity after becom- grant My Brother’s Keeper reing unemployed. “There are times ceived from the Centers for Disease
when I have to decide between Control and Prevention and fundputting gas in my car or having my ing from the Robert Wood Johnson
standard daily meal” consisting of a Foundation. The CDC funding is
McDouble, fries and iced tea from allotted to support public health efMcDonald’s.
forts to reduce chronic diseases and
Abdul-Haqq said she too found disparities, promote healthier lifeherself for a time having to use styles and control health care spendSNAP benefits following her di- ing through sound environmental
vorce. “It took me a while to apply health and policy change.
because of the stigma attached to
A second screening and discususing public assistance. I was em- sion will be held Aug. 29 at Chapel
barrassed. There are lot of families Hill M.B. Church in Clarksdale.
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Friday, August 23, 2013
9:00 a.m. - Budget Hearing - Parks & Recreation, Human &
Cultural Services and Personnel/Employee Benefits
Monday, August 26, 2013
1:00 p.m. - Budget Hearing - General Government (Mayor’s Office,
CAO, Legal/Risk Management, Internal Audit, PEG, Publications,
Constituent Services, Action Line, City Clerk, City Council)
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
3:00 p.m. - Budget Hearing - Zoo and JPS
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
2:00 p.m. - Budget Hearing - JRA, Airport Authority, Library and
Finance/Administration
Thursday, August 29, 2013
10:00 a.m. - Council Deliberations/Budget Hearing Make-up Day
Thursday, September 5, 2013
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Jackson, Tuesday, August 20, 2013
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Dr. L. C. Dorsey
Editor
As press time approached, The
Mississippi Link was informed by
Oleta Garrett Fitzgerald, southern
regional director of the Children’s
Defense Fund, of the passing of
Dr. L.C. Dorsey.
The Mary S. Nelums Foundation named its social workers
award in honor of Dr. L. C. Dorsey. More than 200 guests attended
last year’s luncheon, August 4,
2012, held at the Lakeover Center
in North Jackson.
Attorney Jaribu Hill of the
Mississippi Workers’ Center for
Human Rights was the keynote
speaker. She described Dorsey as
a “fireball.”
Fitzgerald, who was presented
the Dorsey Award, said, “Receipt
of an award from The Mary S.
Nelums Foundation is indeed an
honor. But to have it named in
honor of Dr. L. C. Dorsey is a
highlight in my career as an activist on behalf of Mississippi’s most
vulnerable residents - its children.
Dr. Dorsey has been a mentor to
me for many, many years.”
The information below about
Dorsey was taken from the University of Mississippi “Writers
Page” - www.olemiss.edu/mwp
L.C. (pronounced “Elsie”)
“Dorsey was born December 17,
1938 in Tribbett, Miss. Her life
has been devoted to building economic independence among the
oppressed black delta communities of Mississippi.
She is well known and respected for her many contributions to
the advancement of black men
and women and for her work towards state prison reform. Her
years of work with the prison
system in the state led her to write
many articles and editorials about
Mississippi’s social conditions
for the Jackson Advocate.
Dorsey was inspired by her
mother’s readings of black success stories in publications like
The Pittsburgh Courier and The
Chicago Defender. She studied the leaders of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC) to learn how to organize
people around volunteer efforts.
In 1964, she began working as
a community development spe-
In this 2012 photo Dr. L.C. Dorsey is flanked by Lucas Watson and Oleta
Garrett Fitzgerald.
cialist for Operation Head Start.
Her purpose in this role was to
“get out in the community, making sure people got access to social services that existed.”
This program and Dorsey’s
leadership led to the future developments of the Associated
Communities of Bolivar and Sunflower Counties, independently
run Community Action Programs
(CAP), and the founding of Mississippi’s Office of Economic Opportunity.
In 1966, she was involved in
a new program, Operation Help,
which tried to obtain jobs and assistance for the needy. It was during this time that she organized
many boycotts and demonstrations with the Democratic Freedom Party.
Dorsey received her GED in
1968 through Tufts University’s
STAR (Systematic Training and
Redevelopment) Program. She
received her Master’s degree in
social work in 1973 from Stony
Brook University in New York
via an experimental program
initiated by Sanford Kravitz,
director of Tufts Delta Health
Center.
This program offered graduate
degrees to those blacks without
undergraduate degrees. It was this
experience that allowed Dorsey
to, in her own words, “learn writing, grammar and expression.”
In 1973, Dorsey returned to
Mississippi and began work as
director of social services for the
Mid-Delta Head Start Program in
Greenville. She served as associate director of the Southern Coalition on Jails and Prisons from
1974 until the doors were closed
in 1983 due to lack of funding.
As a result of her work with
the prison system, she served on
President Jimmy Carter’s National Council for Economic Opportunity from 1978 to 1979. In
1977, she wrote her most known
articles for the Southern Coalition
Reports, “Freedom Came to Mississippi” and “Harder Than These
Times.”
In 1983, Dorsey self-published
Cold Steel, a 36-page book about
life at Parchman, Mississippi’s
notorious state prison. This same
year, she received an American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
award for her nine years of work
toward prison reform.
From 1988 to 1995, Dorsey
served as the executive director
for the Delta Health Center in
Mound Bayou, Miss., providing
complete family medical care and
social services for the widespread
poor populations of Bolivar, Coahoma, Sunflower, and Washington Counties.
She then worked as a clinical
associate professor in the Family
Medicine Department at the University of Mississippi Medical
Center. Dorsey lived in Jackson.
She was the mother of six children.
No funeral arrangments were
made by press time.
August 22 - 28, 2013
“A Toast” - Banks, Finley, White & Co. (BFW)
Certified Public Accountants
Celebrating 40 Years - 1973-2013
Reception at the Madison Hall
Jackson, Miss.
August 20, 2013
Jeffery White Sr., Birmingham
Jim White Sr., Birningham
photos by Ayesha K. Mustafaa and Ronald Duffy
Senator Hillman Fraiser (Center) presenting State resolution to BFW partners
Kaiser Brown, Jackson
BFW - Jackson Office
Gregory Ellis Sr., Atlanta
Stanley P. Swayer, Memphis
Lenox Mitchell Forsythe, Atlanta
David Ewing, Jackson
BFW - Memphis Office
Diane Parkinson
Jackson Office
BFW - Atlanta Office
BFW - Birmingham Office
STATE
August 22 - 28, 2013
Healthcare Economy
News Briefs
economy can positive impact.”
To follow is a synopsis of the
bill, which is now Mississippi
law and called the “Mississippi
Health Care Industry Zone Act
(House Bill 1537). In 2012,
the governor signed it into law
“to promote the growth of the
health care industry in Mississippi.”
The Mississippi Health Care
Industry Zone Act aims to expand access to high-quality
medical care for Mississippi residents and increase the number
of health care jobs in the state.
The legislation also created a
business incentive program,
known as the Mississippi Health
Care Industry Zone Incentive
Program, to encourage health
care-related businesses to locate or expand within a qualified Health Care Zone in the
state.
To qualify for assistance
through this program, health
care-related businesses must
commit to create at least 25
full-time jobs and/or invest
$10 million.
The incentive program is
designed to benefit medical
service providers and businesses engaged in:
• Medical supply
• Biologics
• Laboratory testing
• Medical product distribution
• Diagnostic imaging
• Biotechnology
• Pharmaceutical research
and development
• Medical equipment or medicine production and related
manufacturing or processing.
Health Care Zones are defined as:
• Areas within a five-mile radius of a health care facility
with a Certificate of Need for
acute care hospital beds in a
region where there are three
contiguous counties which
have Certificates of Need for
more than 375 acute care hospital beds; and/or
• Areas located within five
miles of a hospital that will
be constructed before July
1, 2017, and that involves a
minimal capital investment
of $250 million.
In addition, health carerelated businesses that locate
within a five-mile radius of
William Carey University’s
Tradition campus in Harrison
County can qualify for Health
Care Industry Zone incentives.
For a health care-related
business to qualify for assistance through the Mississippi
Health Care Industry Zone
Incentive Program, the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) must certify
that the business meets the
minimum requirements of
the program and the project
advances health care opportunities in the state. Certification must be obtained before
the project is announced and
prior to the start of construction and hiring.
Certified businesses are eligible to receive the following
incentives through the Mississippi Health Care Industry
Zone Incentive Program:
• An accelerated, 10-year
state income tax depreciation
deduction; and
• A sales tax exemption for
equipment and materials purchased from the date of the
project’s certification until
three months after the facility
is completed.
• In addition, the program
allows counties and cities
to grant a property tax “fee
in lieu” for 10 years for any
certified project with an investment of more than $10
million or a 10-year “ad valorem” tax exemption at the
city’s or county’s discretion.
• Certified companies can
also qualify for other Mississippi incentive programs.
Ben Minnifield is a strategic marketing partner with
The LeMont Scott Group, a
minority owned healthcare
education organization. For
more information, contact
him at [email protected]
Twin Peaks, the mountainlodge themed sports restaurant,
is opening its first Mississippi
location next month in Jackson
at 6010 I-55 Frontage Rd. In the
week leading up to the opening,
Twin Peaks is going to spend its
time giving back to the city of
Jackson by giving a majority of
food from its training week to
local food shelters providing nutritious and quality meals to the
homeless.
“We’re so thrilled to be opening in Jackson! There’s no better
way for us to start our journey
here than by giving back to our
community,” said Paul Howard,
Operating Partner of Twin Peaks
Jackson, “We are always
trying to seek out new
ways to get involved locally, and giving to these local food shelters is a wonderful opportunity for us.”
The training period will
last from August 27 to September
1, right before the official opening
day. As the Twin Peaks cooks perfect the menu of signature hearty
man food, the Jackson team will
have the pleasure of giving this
food away to those who really
need it.
“Here at Twin Peaks all of our
dishes are made-from-scratch and
we use the freshest ingredients
we can find,” Howard explained,
“We’re excited to lend a hand and
donate to this cause.”
Twin Peaks Jackson is set to
open this September and will be located at 6010 I-55 Frontage Road.
Visit
TwinPeaksRestaurant.
com for additional information
and opening updates available at
https://www.facebook.com/TwinPeaksJackson.
For additional information,
contact Katie Allen, Front Burner
Restaurants. 214.686.5095, [email protected]
From Across The State
UMMC leasing Grenada Lake Medical
Center
Alan Hughes of Ingalls Shipbuilding
Dr. Ardis Dee Hovan, president, American Medical Association
Tanya Scott, LSG; Gov. Bryant and Ben Minnifield, LSG
Ben Minnifield, LSG; Kathleen Wood; Tanya Scott, LSG; Dr. Clay Hays
Twin Peaks Jackson to
give back to community
With approval Thursday, August 15, 2013
from the State Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees,
University of Mississippi
Medical Center leaders
will sign an agreement
to lease the 156-bed
Grenada Lake Medical
Center from the Grenada County Board of
Supervisors.
Under the agreement, UMMC would
GLMC PHOTO by Monica Land begin managing GLMC
Sept. 1, and lease the facility beginning Jan. 1. Under the terms, UMMC would pay the
county about $1.8 million annually to retire the facility’s $37.4
million debt.
Dr. James E. Keeton, UMMC vice chancellor for Health Affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, said the lease deal
helps ensure Grenada County and surrounding residents can
receive high-quality hospital care locally.
“We’re glad to embrace this opportunity to make a difference for the people in Grenada and surrounding areas,”
Keeton said. “Collaboration will be key to success in health
care in the future. We’re honored the Board of Supervisors
selected us to partner with Grenada Lake Medical Center and
the strong care providers in the community.”
What makes this partnership even better, he said, is that
UMMC can rotate some of its students and residents through
GLMC.
“Education is a big part of what we do. We need more
teaching venues so we can continue training more health professionals for Mississippi. Grenada brings that important element to the table.”
The new relationship also provides opportunities to expand
telemedicine services, which bring sub-specialty-level care
from Jackson to community hospitals via secure video con-
by Monica Land,
Contributing Writer
nections.
During the four-month lease agreement, an executive steering committee will transition the facility and its operations to
UMMC practice models and the GLMC’s work force to UMMC
employment. The timing could change depending on facilities
issues and governmental approvals.
As well, UMMC and GLMC administrators will work toward
obtaining the necessary licenses and certifications for various
operations. GLMC currently has about 400 full-time and 50
part-time employees.
A 20-year lease would start Jan. 1 and includes three optional 10-year renewals for a total of 50 years. UMMC has
proposed leasing GLMC for $37.4 million, the amount of the
facility’s debt. UMMC would use patient-care revenue to pay
Grenada County about $1.8 million annually.
Sentencing reset for lab owner
(AP) A federal judge has
reset the sentencing date
for an environmental laboratory owner in Mississippi who
was convicted on federal
charges of falsifying records
on industrial wastewater
samples.
Tennie White was the sole operator of Mississippi Environmental Analytical Laboratories Inc.
She was convicted in May in U.S. District Court in Jackson
on two counts of making false statements and one count of obstruction. Sentencing was first set for August 8 before U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate. It has been continued to August 23.
White faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine
for each court of making false statements and up to 20 years in
prison and a $250,000 fine on the obstruction charge. White’s
lawyer, Abby Brumley, said they plan to appeal.
The indictment from November 2012 said Borg Warner
Emissions Systems Inc. hired White to test wastewater discharge at its car parts plant in Water Valley. It says White
created three reports in 2009 that indicated testing had been
done, when it had not.
The tests were used for reports submitted to the Mississippi
Department of Environmental Quality. The car parts company
was not accused of wrongdoing.
Writ of Election - Hattiesburg
mayoral election rescheduled
August 22 - 28, 2013
Reeves-Darby
March
Her accomplishments include
being ranked 4th in state for USTA
Girls 16s, Guillot Travel Grant recipient to Rwanda and MC Science
and Math Tournament Team - First
Place.
She’s a member of the Duke Field
Studies and Institute on Genetics, St.
Andrews Varsity Team/ USTA Tournament Player and Global Habitat
for Humanity Program to Thailand.
Her volunteer activities include a
service trip to Rwanda and a medical
trip to Honduras.
She is a member of Teen Trendsetters Tutoring Program and the Jack
and Jill of America, serving young
people in the Jackson metro area.
She plans to attend Dartmouth
College or the University of Chicago
to pursue a career as a chemist or
chemical engineer. Last year, Portico
Magazine named her one of the 25
students to change the world.
During the weeklong program in
Meridian, program contestants were
evaluated on scholastic achievement, fitness, self-expression, talent
and interview. Reeves-Darby chose
a piano solo of The Phantom of the
Opera Overture for her talent.
Last year, Mackenzie Ross, Distinguished Young Woman of Lauderdale County, took the title of
Distinguished Young Woman of
Mississippi and $13,500 in college
scholarships.
She was awarded the John Houston Phillips Overall Self-Expression
Award and talent and scholastic preliminary awards.
The Distinguished Young Women
Program was founded as America’s
Junior Miss in 1957 and is the oldest
and largest scholarship program for
young women. More than 6,500 high
school girls participate each year.
Past participants include Diane
Sawyer, Debra Messing, Deborah
Norville, Julie Moran, the late Mary
Frann, Kim Basinger and Kathie Lee
Gifford.
Distinguished Young Women
national sponsors include Mobile
County and the City of Mobile.
National category sponsors include
Encore Rehabilitation, Spanx, Wintzell’s Oyster House, Mobile Gas,
Alabama Power Foundation, Master
Boat Builders, Inc. and Regions Financial Corporation.
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century to the very minute after
Dr. King delivered his historic
address.
Groups across the country
will also pause to mark the
50th anniversary of Dr. King’s
speech by also ringing bells at
3 p.m. EST in their home states.
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deeply personal commitment
to racial equality and economic
justice,” said former President
Bill Clinton. “Its wisdom and
power continues to inspire us
today. I’m honored to lend my
voice to this important celebration of one of our greatest leaders and most historic days.”
The 50th Anniversary March
on Washington Coalition has
organized a series of events to
commemorate and celebrate
this historic event, including a
Global Freedom Festival, open
to the public August 24 - 27 on
the National Mall, and an Interfaith Prayer Service at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
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28.
Former President Jimmy
Carter said, “It is an honor to
participate in this ceremony as
we remember a great man, a heroic leader and a noble message
that still rings as true today as it
did 50 years ago.
“This commemorative event
is an opportunity to speak about
Dr. King’s dream of equal rights
and equal opportunity for all.
Dr. King’s legacy remains an
inspiration for us all on this special anniversary and will continue to for generations to come.”
Coalition members include
the A. Philip Randolph Institute,
The King Center, National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People (NAACP),
National Action
Network
(NAN), National Coalition
of Black Civic Participation
(NCBCP), National Council of
Negro Women (NCNW), National Urban League (NUL),
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC) and Naational Park Service.
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meet my father’s
call to ‘Let freedom
ring’ with President
Obama,
President
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Center.
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with
people across America and the world, we
will pause to mark
the 50th anniversary of my father’s
‘I Have a Dream’
speech, affirming the
unity of people of all
races, religions and
nations.”
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NATIONAL
August 22 - 28, 2013
3 teens charged in death
Benghazi aftershocks
of
Australian
player
affecting U.S. policy in Egypt
By Bradley Klapper
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The specter of Benghazi is affecting
U.S. policy in coup-wracked
Egypt.
The deadly attack on the
U.S. diplomatic post in Libya
was cited as a reason for closing some 20 American embassies and consulates this
month in the face of an alQaida threat. And Benghazi is
now playing heavily into the
Obama administration’s deliberations on how to respond to
the growing unrest in Egypt,
the Arab world’s most populous country, according to officials.
The fear in Washington:
That any significant cut in military aid could prompt Egypt’s
ruling generals to scale back
their protection of the U.S.
Embassy in Cairo and other
diplomatic properties. The administration doesn’t want to
take any step that endangers
American diplomatic personnel on the ground.
“We are concerned about our
people,” Defense Secretary
Chuck Hagel said at a news
conference August 19, 2013.
“Protection of Americans in
Egypt, not just only our diplomats but all Americans, is of
the highest priority.”
“American government officials, including American
military, have been working
very closely with the Egyptian
military and police to assure
the security and protection of
Americans in Egypt,” Hagel
told reporters.
To respond to the escalating
death toll and security crackdown, the administration is
considering suspending some
of the $250 million in annual
U.S. economic aid for Egypt.
Congressional
notification
could arrive in the next week,
said the officials, who weren’t
authorized to speak publicly
on the matter and demanded
anonymity.
However, officials said
Obama and his national security team are still reluctant to
halt the $1.3 billion in yearly
military assistance that has
been more or less guaranteed
since Egypt became the first
Arab country to sign a peace
treaty with Israel more than
three decades ago. The U.S.
could opt for more piecemeal
moves like the decision to put
off the delivery of four F-16
fighter jets and biennial, U.S.Egyptian military exercises
planned for next month, they
said.
Asked about a pending delivery of Apache helicopters,
Hagel would only say the U.S.
was reviewing its options.
Hagel, who has spoken by
telephone regularly with top
Egyptian Gen. Abdel-Fattah
el-Sissi, demanded that the
government make the political
process inclusive. But he conceded that the U.S. has limited
influence over Egypt’s course
and stressed that America’s
longstanding relationship with
the Egyptians would continue.
Protesters last September
President Barack Obama makes a statement to the media regarding events
in Egypt, from his rental vacation home in Chilmark Mass., on the island of
Martha’s Vineyard, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. The president announced that
the U.S. is canceling joint military exercise with Egypt amid violence. (AP
Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
marched on the U.S. embassy
compound in Cairo, scaled the
walls and replaced the American flag with the black banner
favored by Islamists before
a belated response from the
government of then-President
Mohammed Morsi.
Yet since the army’s July
overthrow of Morsi, and despite violence between Egyptian security forces and Morsi’s Islamist supporters that
has killed almost 1,000 people
in the last week, U.S. diplomatic facilities in the country
have been well protected.
Despite the obvious power
imbalance in the U.S.-Egypt
relationship, Egypt in some
ways has the greater leverage.
Many Egyptian citizens and
even some in the government
deride America’s financial assistance as unnecessary interference. The reality, however,
is Egypt would likely face
even worse economic struggles were it to sacrifice such
aid.
But it’s the Obama administration which is defending
the aid. It has refused to declare Morsi’s ouster a “coup
d’etat,” which would require
the U.S. to suspend military
and economic funds to Egypt.
And President Barack Obama
stressed last week that cutting
off the assistance “was not in
the national security interests”
of the United States.
The U.S. has consistently
outlined the important operations such money supports from fighting al-Qaida in the
heart of the Middle East and
safeguarding the stability
of the Suez Canal to halting
weapons flow to the Hamasruled Gaza Strip and ensuring
Israel’s security.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said August
19 the U.S. was still reviewing what economic programs
could lose funding. She said
most of the $250 million package would be unaffected because U.S. law allows for the
continuation of aid related to
elections, the environment and
good governance. She didn’t
specify what law she was talking about; the U.S. law concerning a coup exempts money for democracy promotion
from cuts.
The protection of American
diplomatic assets has been another major, if up to now, unspoken element in U.S. policy
considerations, officials said.
The administration doesn’t
worry that cutting aid would
spark an attack on U.S. interests by Egypt’s military-led
interim authorities. But it does
fear that an army already besieged by internal disorder
from the deadly standoff in
Cairo’s streets to the increasingly lawless Sinai Peninsula
bordering Israel, could easily turn its cheek to threats
against the United States if
it is openly - and financially
- expressing its opposition to
Egyptian government policies.
Such a scenario would put
Americans serving in an already dangerous environment
in even greater peril, given
Egypt’s history of embassy
breaches. Beside the U.S.,
demonstrators penetrated Israel’s embassy in 2011 and
damaged the facility before
a late-night call from Obama
spurred Egypt’s military into
restoring order.
Any attack targeting the
U.S. overseas would be a political disaster for Obama,
given the continued criticism
over his administration’s handling of the Sept. 11 attack
in Benghazi that killed U.S.
Ambassador Chris Stevens
and three other Americans.
Congressional investigations
continue almost a year later,
and the United States has yet
to bring a single perpetrator
to justice - even if the Justice
Department has filed sealed
charges against several individuals for alleged involvement in the attack.
A repeat attack would be a
major blow to Obama as he
tries to work with Congress on
a domestic agenda including
immigration, debt reduction
and making his health care
overhaul fully operational.
By Kristi Eaton
Associated Press
DUNCAN, Okla. - With a motive that’s both chilling and simple
- to break up the boredom of an
Oklahoma summer - three teenagers randomly targeted an Australian collegiate baseball player who
was attending school in the U.S.
and killed him for fun, prosecutors
said Tuesday, August 20, as they
charged two of the boys with murder.
Prosecutor Jason Hicks called
the boys “thugs” as he described
how Christopher Lane, 22, of Melbourne, was shot once in the back
and died along a tree-lined road on
Duncan’s well-to-do north side. He
said the three teens, from the grittier
part of town, chose Lane at random
and that one of the boys “thinks it’s
all a joke.”
Hicks charged Chancey Allen
Luna, 16, and James Francis Edwards Jr., 15, of Duncan, with firstdegree murder. Under Oklahoma
law they will be tried as adults. Michael Dewayne Jones, 17, of Duncan, was charged with using a vehicle in the discharge of a weapon
and with accessory to first-degree
murder after the fact. He is considered a youthful offender but will be
tried in adult court.
Jones wept in the courtroom after
he tried to speak about the incident
but was cut off by the judge who
said it wasn’t the time to sort out
the facts of the case. Jones faces
anywhere from two years to life in
prison if convicted on the counts he
faces.
The two younger teens face life
in prison without parole if convicted on the murder charge.
“I’m appalled,” Hicks said after
the hearing. “This is not supposed
to happen in this community.”
In court, Hicks said Luna was sitting in the back seat of a car when
he pulled the trigger on a .22 caliber
revolver and shot Lane once in the
back. Hicks said Jones was driving
the vehicle and Edwards was in the
passenger seat.
A recording of an emergency
911 call obtained by The Associated Press offers a chilling account
of the next moments as a woman
identifying herself as Joyce Smith
tells the operator she saw Lane fall
over into a ditch as she drove by.
“He’s got blood on his back,” the
woman says.
Later relaying word from another witness on the scene to the 911
operator, the woman says: “He’s
turning blue. He’s making a noise.”
Edwards has had
prior run-ins with the
law and came to court
Friday — apparently
after the shooting — to
sign documents related
to his juvenile probation.
This combination made with booking photos
“I believe this man provided by the Stephens County, Okla., Sheris a threat to the com- iffs Department, shows, from left, James Francis
munity and should not Edwards Jr., 15, Michael Dewayne Jones, 17, and
be let out,” Hicks said Chancey Allen Luna, 16, all of Duncan, Okla. The
as he requested he be three teenagers have been charged in connection
held without bail. “He with the killing of 22-year-old Australian collegiate
thinks it’s all a joke.”
baseball player Christopher Lane, 22. Luna and
The two younger Edwards were charged with first-degree murder
boys were held with- and, under Oklahoma law, will be tried as adults.
out bail, while bail for Jones was accused of using a vehicle in the disJones was set at $1 charge of a weapon and accessory to first-degree
million.
murder after the fact. He is considered a youthful
Before the hear- offender but will be tried in adult court. (AP Photo/
ing, Edwards’ father, Stephens County Sheriffs Department)
James Edwards Sr.,
said he knew where his
scheduled a memorial game for
son was 95 percent of the time. He Sunday, August 25, to raise funds
said his son was involved in wres- for Lane’s parents as they worked
tling and football, and was trying to to have their boy’s remains sent
forge the same sort of athletic ca- home.
reer as Lane. He was heading into
Tony Cornish, president of the
his sophomore year in high school. Essendon Baseball Club, said Lane
Edwards Sr. said Luna was also played with the club for 12 years.
like a son to him.
“He started out as a T-baller, right
Luna’s mother, Jennifer Luna, from the age of 7, “ said Cornish.
said her son likes to play basketCornish said Lane was part of the
ball at a local court and play on his club until he left to attend college in
iPhone and Xbox.
the U.S.
“I know my son. He is a good
“Chris Lane was a good kid, just
kid,” she said.
a great all-around guy,” Cornish
Lane played baseball at East said. “We’re still all in shock here.”
Central University in Ada, 85 miles
Meanwhile, St. Bernard’s Coleast of Duncan, and had been visit- lege in Essendon, where Lane was
ing his girlfriend and her parents in a student, is planning a memorial
Duncan after he and his girlfriend Mass for Lane in November.
returned to the U.S. from Australia
Melbourne’s Herald Sun newsabout a week ago.
paper reported that roses and a
Duncan police Chief Dan Ford baseball were placed on the home
has said the boys wanted to over- plate where Lane played as a youth
come a boring end to their summer with the message: “A wonderful
vacation — classes in Duncan re- young man taken too soon. Why?”
sumed August 20 — and that Jones
Tim Fischer, former Australia
told officers they were bored and deputy prime minister, criticized
killed Lane for “the fun of it.”
the National Rifle Association and
Family and friends on two con- asked Australians to avoid the U.S.
tinents were mourning Lane, who as a way to put pressure on its Congave up pursuit of an Australian gress to act on gun control.
football career to pursue his pas“Tourists thinking of going to the
sion for baseball, an American pas- USA should think twice,” Fischer
time. His girlfriend, Sarah Harper, told the Herald Sun. “I am deeply
tearfully laid a cross at a streetside angry about this because of the calmemorial in Duncan, while half lous attitude of the three teenagers,
a world away, an impromptu me- (but) it’s a sign of the proliferation
morial grew at the home plate he of guns on the ground in the USA.
protected as a catcher on his youth There is a gun for almost every
team.
American.”
“We just thought we’d leave it,”
___
Harper said as she visited the meAP sports writer Dennis Passa
morial in Duncan. “This is his final in Brisbane, Australia, and reporter
spot.”
Sue Ogrocki in Duncan, Okla., conHis old baseball team, Essendon, tributed to this report.
Robin Thicke heads to
court over ‘Blurred Lines’
By Anthony Mccartney
Ap Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES - Robin
Thicke is asking a federal
judge to determine his song
“Blurred Lines” doesn’t copy
from elements of two other
songs.
Attorneys for Thicke and
the song’s collaborators,
Pharrell Williams and T.I.,
filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles August 15, asking a judge
to determine their song does
not copy songs composed
by Marvin Gaye and George
Clinton.
“Plaintiffs created a hit and
did it without copying anyone
else’s composition,” the lawsuit reads.
The suit states representatives of the owners of copyrights to Gaye’s song “Got
to Give It Up” and Clinton’s
song “Sexy Ways” have
warned Thicke that he and
his collaborators have used
elements of the songs in
“Blurred Lines.”
“The basis of the Gaye
defendants’ claims is that
‘Blurred Lines’ and ‘Got to
This July 30, 2013 file photo shows Robin Thicke performing on NBC’s
“Today” show in New York. An attorney for Thicke and collaborator
Pharrell Williams filed a lawsuit Thursday, Aug. 16, 2013, in Los Angeles, asking a federal judge to determine that the pair’s hit song “Blurred
Lines” does not copy elements from two older songs by Marvin Gaye and
George Clinton. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
Give It Up’ ‘feel’ or ‘sound’
the same,” the lawsuit states.
“Being reminiscent of a
‘sound’ is not copyright infringement. The intent in producing ‘Blurred Lines’ was to
evoke an era.”
Representatives for Thicke
and one of the defendants,
Gaye’s son Marvin Gaye III,
didn’t immediately reply to
emails seeking comment.
“Blurred Lines” is spending
its 10th week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. It has
sold 4.6 million tracks. The
song’s music video features
nude models prowling around
Thicke, Williams and T.I. It
has more than 137 million
views and helped propel the
song to the top of the charts.
EDUCATION
August 22 - 28, 2013
JSU welcomes new students Late registration ends Friday
during annual move-in day
at Hinds Community College
Move-in day volunteers assist a new Jacksonian
Students and families from
all over the country arrived on
the campus of Jackson State
University Aug. 17 for the university’s annual move-in day.
“They all look so excited,”
said Tyiesha Johnson, senior
speech communications major
and move-in day volunteer.
“It’s just sad to see the parents
cry when they leave their babies.”
JSU President Carolyn W.
Meyers and Provost and Vice
President of Academic Affairs
James C. Renick greeted students from states that included
Tennessee, Georgia, Missouri,
Louisiana, Florida, Ohio, Texas
and Mississippi.
Faculty, staff, students and
alumni aided the new Jacksonians as they moved in by loading the new students’ belongings into carts and wheeling
them into residence halls.
“We want our new family to
know that we are concerned
about their well being,” said
Meyers. “We want them to be
confident in our commitment to
them.”
Parents expressed their appreciation of the love they felt
from the JSU community. “I’m
not worried about him being
taken care of,” said Willie Allison, father of criminal justice major Cleveland Allison.
Jamario Rankin and mother Menyond McGhee chat
with JSU President Carolyn W. Meyers.
“These
are
tears of joy. He
is coming to
one of the best
schools in the
state.”
Some of the
new students
also conveyed
the confidence
that they have
in their new
JSU
family.
“It was really Lakendra Heck (right) of Jacksonville, Fla., jokes with her
nice here when mother Katina Heck as she moves into her new home.
I visited,” said
freshman elementary educa- lege as a premier opportunity.
tion major Jasmine Robinson
“She has structure here,” said
of Mason, Ohio. “I felt like I Katina Heck. “We are going to
would be at home.”
say that JSU is a top 50 school.
John Hampton Jr. of Mem- You don’t really hear anything
phis agreed. “I came down for negative about JSU.”
high school day and I felt at
Carol Pirtle of the Memphis
home,” Hampton said. “It was area showed similar enthusian automatic connection. I’m asm. “I’m happy to drop him
just happy to be here.”
off,” Pirtle said, referring to her
Hampton is a third genera- son Darius Pirtle, an 18-yeartion Jacksonian and a meteorol- old biology pre-physical theraogy major.
py major. “I think he’ll benefit
Lakendra Heck of Jackson- from being in Jackson.”
ville, Fla. said that Jackson
JSU move-in day kicks
State is a new place of refuge off the university’s Welcome
for her. “Getting away from Week, which runs through Sunher was my number one thing,” day, Aug. 25.
Heck said jokingly as she pointWelcome Week activities ined to her mother, Katina Heck. clude workshops, social gatherDespite the new distance ings, community service projin parent-child relationships, ects and orientation sessions.
some of the parents see their The first day of classes is Monchild’s selection of JSU for col- day, Aug. 26.
PEARL - For Samantha
McWilliams of Richland and
Kassy Ayers of Florence, the
opportunity to pursue a medical career in classes close to
home motivated them to enroll
in classes at the Rankin Campus of Hinds Community College.
Classes opened Aug. 19, but
it’s not too late to register for
classes. Late registration with
an additional fee continues until 5:30 p.m. through Thursday
and until 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. Barbara Hynes of Richland is finishing her last semester at Hinds Com23.
munity College before heading to Jackson State University next semester.
McWilliams plans to major Helping her is Hinds employee Jay Wilkins.
in surgical technology; Ayers
plans a career in medical as- I’m able to work,” Ayers said.
12,000 for the fall 2013 semessisting. “It’s close to home and
Hinds has enrolled nearly ter.
Hinds employee Doris Godbolt checks out Rankin
Campus radiology student Janet Lewis of Brandon on
the first day of fall classes at Hinds Community College Aug. 19.
Cory Busby of Brandon, left, Shernita Matthews of
Jackson and Cody Kadoun of Pearl check their schedules on the first day of fall classes at Hinds Community
College’s Rankin Campus.
Hinds CC presents watercolor
art exhibit through Sept. 20
Delta State, home away from
home for internationals
Student Success Center staff serve as mentors to international students
Delta State University’s
Student Success Center welcomes international students
for the fall of 2013. The SSC
launched last fall and includes
three divisions: International
Student Services, Academic
Support Services and Academic Advising Services.
Native students at Delta
State benefit from studying
and interacting with international students. Students from
local counties are amazed and
curious about the education
and culture of international
students, while internationals
are just as eager to learn about
Southern culture.
“International
students
bring a unique perspective to
the classes here at Delta State
University. I have witnessed
firsthand how their contributions elevate the overall
classroom experience for our
domestic students,” said Doug
Johnson, director of Academic
Support Services & Developmental Studies.
Last year, 64 international
students studied in 23 different
majors, with 47 of them being
student athletes. The Student
Success Center is currently
working with two graduate applicants who are interested in
the graduate nursing program
for the fall of 2014.
“It has been an honor working with the international
students this past year,” said
Christy Riddle, executive director of the SSC. “They enhance the educational and
cultural experiences of our domestic students and contribute
to the local economy.”
Kellie Hendle, a Canadian
entering her third year as a
soccer player at Delta State,
stated that she has experienced incredible support. The
office located on the third
floor of the H.L. Nowell Student Union has been “home
away from home. Delta State
University has raised the bar
with the International Support
Services by bringing growth,
diversity, dedication and determination to another level.”
RAYMOND - The Marie
Hull Gallery on the Raymond
Campus of Hinds Community
College presents a Mississippi
Watercolor Society exhibit,
“Selected Works from Current Members,” from Aug. 26
through Sept. 20.
Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to
3 p.m., Monday-Thursday; 8
a.m. to noon, Friday. The gallery is closed for all college
holidays including Labor Day
on Sept. 2. There is no admission fee.
As Mississippi’s largest
community college, Hinds
Community College is a comprehensive institution offering
quality, affordable educational
opportunities with more than
170 academic, career and technical programs. With six locations in central Mississippi,
Hinds enrolled nearly 12,000
credit students in fall 2012.
To learn more, visit www.
hindscc.edu or call 1.800.
HindsCC.
The diversity is expected
to expand again with new international students arriving
this fall. Some countries participating in Delta State’s International Program include:
England, Australia, France,
Germany and Canada. Among
the roughly 25 countries, the
furthest participant will be
coming from South Korea this
semester.
Waldemar Juschin, a graduate student from Germany who
earned his bachelor’s degree
at Delta State, has worked as a
graduate assistant in the SSC.
“I feel that Delta State University’s international program has gone through a complete overhaul because of the
establishment of the Student
Success Center and the recently added Division of International Student Services,”
said Juschin. “This past year,
international students have
received more assistance and
support at Delta State, which
translates into more campus
involvement and positive
feedback from participants.”
For many locals, interaction
with international students is
their first contact with a different culture. The experience
is not just for university students - all of the international
students enrich the educational experience at local high
schools through cultural presentations.
“I feel as if I have gone
around the world this semester,” said assistant advisor
Kim Trotter. “In our ‘Travel
the Globe in One Night’ event,
our international students prepared different foods from
their home countries. It has
been a pleasure getting to
know all of these students, and
I am looking forward to another great year.”
Joining the SSC’s team in
November as the international
student advisor, Elise Mallette
tries to make sure that each
international student feels that
they are not just a number, but
part of the Delta State University family.
“We want to make sure that
they feel welcome and consider Delta State University as
their home away from home,”
said Mallette. “The international students call Christy
and I their ‘American moms’
because we take them to the
airport, doctor appointments,
grocery store and we keep
track of them when they are
traveling. We even keep their
insurance cards in our vehicles
just in case something ever
happens and they need us.”
The Student Success Center
continues to move forward retaining and bringing in more
international students to add
to the cultural and educational
experience of Delta State University.
August 22 - 28, 2013
Fox Everett donates
supplies to Jackson
Public Schools
Fox Everett, supporters of
Jackson Public Schools, do-
nated much needed school supplies to Partners in Education
(PIE). The supplies will be used
to stock the PIE store for JPS
teachers. The gift from Fox Everett totaled more than $500.
Sandi East, left, and Anita Griffith of Fox Everett delivered the supplies to Rebecca Starling and Sandra Showah of JPS
Partners in Education. Photo Courtesy of Benita Donald
PSA
HEALTH
August 22 - 28, 2013
Mississippi has lowest
breastfeeding rate in nation
By Evelina Burnett
mpbonline.org
Mississippi has the lowest
breastfeeding rate in the nation. As
Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s
Evelina Burnett reported, experts
said the key to encouraging breastfeeding is education and support.
Stephanie Gable’s job at Gulfport Memorial hospital is to help
educate and encourage new moms
about breastfeeding their babies.
The lactation consultants at Memorial offer breastfeeding classes
and assistance to new moms. In
addition to education, Gable said
one of the keys to encouraging
breastfeeding is to provide support, lots of it.
The CDC said the breastfeeding rate in Mississippi is 50.5 percent, the lowest in the nation. In
the U.S., 77 percent of babies are
breastfed at some point.
CDC researcher Jessica Allen
said there are an array of health
benefits to breastfeeding.
Part of the challenge is breastfeeding is not the social norm in
the south. Amy Winter was breastfeeding coordinator for Mississippi’s WIC program for almost
seven years. She said that’s one
reason why moms need support
and encouragement.
The CDC study also noted that
Mississippi is one of only six
states whose day care licensing
regulations support breastfeeding.
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Gulfport Memorial Hospital lactation consultant Stephanie Gable shows the
donated breast milk in the hospital’s milk bank program. Photo courtesy
Memorial Hospital at Gulfport
New tool peeks into brain Three easy lunchbox
to measure consciousness additions to fuel your kid’s day
By Lauran Neergaard
Ap Medical Writer
WASHINGTON - When
people have a brain injury so
severe that they can’t squeeze
a loved one’s hand or otherwise respond, there are few
good ways to tell if they have
any lingering awareness or are
in a vegetative state. Now researchers have created a tool
to peek inside the brain and
measure varying levels of consciousness.
The work reported August
14, 2013 is highly experimental, not ready for bedside
use yet - and if it pans out, a
big question is how to use it
without raising false hope. No
one knows what level of consciousness at a certain point
after injury really predicts recovery.
But it offers the hope that
one day doctors might track
consciousness nearly as easily
as they check blood pressure.
“Consciousness can grow
and shrink,” said Dr. Marcello
Massimini, a neurophysiologist at Italy’s University of
Milan who led the research to
quantify just how much that is
happening under different circumstances.
It seems obvious - consciousness fades during deep
sleep, and doctors can slip
us under with anesthesia. Yet
scientists don’t have a good
way to measure consciousness, especially when the very
ill appear to be unconscious.
It’s important to try to distinguish if patients are at least
minimally conscious, and not
in a vegetative state, because
the sooner there’s some sign
of awareness, the better the
chance of recovery.
Today, doctors check if
those patients can do things
like blink or move a limb on
command, or react to touch
or pain. If not, scans of the
brain’s electrical activity may
offer clues. Scientists even
have put seemingly unconscious patients inside MRI
scanners and told them to
imagine throwing a ball. How
the brain reacts can indicate if
they’re aware and just can’t
show it, what’s called lockedin syndrome. But all these
tests have drawbacks.
The new work, reported in
the journal Science Translational Medicine, aims for an
easier, more objective measure. It’s based on the theory
that consciousness depends on
the complexity of activity in
the brain, how well different
regions connect and process
information. For example,
when you’re deeply asleep,
the neighbor’s car alarm may
not wake you but your brain
still processes that you heard
it. When you’re wide awake, it
also processes how annoying
the alarm is and how often it
goes off.
Massimini’s team combined
two well-known medical devices. First, a coil delivers a
powerful pulse of magnetism
that travels through the skull
to stimulate the brain, essentially knocking on it to say
“wake up.” Then an EEG,
which measures brain waves
through electrodes attached to
the scalp, records the patterns
of activity as neurons fire in
response.
The final trick: The researchers created a formula
to compare the complexity of
those resulting brain patterns
by “zipping” them, like digital
files are compressed so they
can be emailed. They called
the resulting numerical mea-
surement the PCI, or pertubational complexity index.
The team compared tests
from 32 healthy people who
were awake, asleep, dreaming
or anesthetized, and 20 people
with a variety of serious brain
injuries. The two patients with
locked-in syndrome clearly
were aware, scoring nearly
as high as awake and healthy
people, they reported. The patients diagnosed as being in a
vegetative state had scores as
low as people rendered unconscious by the most powerful anesthesia. The minimally
conscious were somewhere
in-between.
The strategy could miss
consciousness, so it wouldn’t
give doctors enough information for end-of-life decisions,
researchers caution.
But it’s a pioneering study
that offers highly promising
leads, said Dr. Nicholas Schiff,
a professor of neurology and
neuroscience at Weill Cornell
Medical College in New York,
who wasn’t part of the project.
If it’s ultimately proven
to work, the bigger impact
could be in helping doctors
study whether patients improve when given different
treatments, added Dr. Lori
Shutter, a brain intensive care
specialist at the University of
Pittsburgh, who also wasn’t
involved with the work on August 14.
But she cautioned that just
finding a glimmer of consciousness could mislead
families hoping for a miracle
long after the possibility for
improvement is over.
“This may provide a lot of
insight,” Shutter said. “The
downside is once you prove
there’s any consciousness,
how will a family react?”
StatePoint.net
What your children eat
during the school day not
only affects their health and
wellness, but proper nutrition can benefit them academically as well. Take care
to pack lunches and snacks
that will serve your children
well on both counts!
With that goal in mind,
think superfoods. Superfoods are specific foods
loaded with unusually high
amounts of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Supermarkets are full of inexpensive,
easy-to-pack
superfoods that make great
additions to your child’s
more traditional lunchbox
favorites.
This school year, consider
introducing these three to
your child’s repertoire:
Seaweed
Seaweed offers the broadest range of minerals of any
food on the planet. It contains 10 to 20 times the mineral concentration of land
plants, as well as protein,
fiber iodine, vitamin K, folate, magnesium, iron, and
calcium, and measurable
amounts of vitamins C and
E. And a serving has only 25
to 100 calories.
“Seaweed is nature’s per-
fect snack. It’s easy and fun
to eat, gluten free, vegetarian and naturally low in calories and sodium,” said Annie Chun, seaweed fanatic
and co-founder of GimMe
Health.
How do you get kids to
try this nutritional powerhouse? GimMe Organic
Roasted Seaweed snacks,
available in sea salt and
sesame flavors, come in single servings and are easy to
pack in a lunch bag. Certified USDA organic and verified non-GMO, they make
a great substitute for highfat snacks like potato chips.
If you’re packing pasta
or rice, consider mixing in
some Gimme Roasted Seaweed Crumbles for an added boost of nutrition.
For more seaweed lunch
and snack ideas, visit www.
GimMeHealth.com.
Nuts
A small handful of almonds or walnuts pack a
wallop of protein, fiber, vitamins, minerals, and omega-3s. Eating just a serving
a day may help lower cholesterol, prevent diabetes,
fight cancer, and even boost
brain power. Recent studies
also suggest that eating nuts
helps promote a healthy
weight.
While peanut butter is
certainly delicious and a
great source of vitamins,
almond butter has different dietary benefits and its
own great taste. So if you
normally pack a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, send
an almond butter and jelly
sandwich instead. Almonds
can also be a great alternative for kids with peanut allergies.
Berries
It makes no difference
whether they’re black, blue
or red, berries are a powerhouse of antioxidants
and phytochemicals, which
are proven cancer fighters.
They’re also an excellent
source of vitamins A, C and
E, as well as calcium and folic acid.
Mix berries into yogurt
or oatmeal to create a nutrition-packed meal. Or add
a serving size of dried fruit
with no sugar added to your
child’s lunch bag. Mix with
almonds or walnuts to make
a healthy trail mix.
Between reading, writing
and arithmetic, you can impart some great wisdom to
your children at lunch time
- great taste and great nutrition can go hand in hand.
New lyme disease estimate: 300,000 cases a year
By Mike Stobbe
Ap Medical Writer
ATLANTA - Lyme disease
is about 10 times more common than previously reported,
health officials said August 19,
2013.
As many as 300,000 Americans are actually diagnosed
with Lyme disease each year,
the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention announced.
Usually, only 20,000 to
30,000 illnesses are reported
each year. For many years,
CDC officials have known that
many doctors don’t report every case and that the true count
was probably much higher.
The new figure is the CDC’s
most comprehensive attempt at
a better estimate. The number
comes from a survey of seven
national laboratories, a national
patient survey and a review of
insurance information.
“It’s giving us a fuller picture
and it’s not a pleasing one,”
said Dr. Paul Mead, who oversees the agency’s tracking of
Lyme disease.
The ailment is named after
Lyme, Conn., where the illness
was first identified in 1975. It’s
a bacteria transmitted through
the bites of infected deer ticks,
which can be about the size of
a poppy seed.
Symptoms include a fever, headache and fatigue and
sometimes a telltale rash that
looks like a bull’s-eye centered
on the tick bite.
Most people recover with antibiotics.
If left untreated, the
infection can cause
arthritis and more
severe problems.
In the U.S., the
majority of Lyme
disease
reports
have come from 13
states: Connecticut, This is a March 2002 file photo of a deer tick under
Delaware, Maine, a microscope in the entomology lab at the UniverMaryland,
Mas- sity of Rhode Island in South Kingstown, R.I. Lyme
sachusetts, Minne- disease is about 10 times more common than
sota, New Hamp- previously reported, health officials said Monday,
shire, New Jersey, Aug. 19. (AP Photo/ Victoria Arocho, File)
New York, Pennanything to suggest the disease
sylvania, Vermont,
is more geographically wideVirginia and Wisconsin.
The new study did not find spread, Mead said.
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OPINION
AUGUST 22 - 28, 2013
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How could Russell Simmons
Dr. King’s unfinished
‘Symphony of Freedom’ violate Harriet Tubman?
By Rev. Jesse Jackson
NNPA Guest Columnist
The weekend
of August 23 24 and August
28, 2013 we
will celebrate
the 50th anniversary of the March on
Washington for Jobs and
Freedom, best known as
Dr. Martin Luther King’s
“Dream” speech. Fifty years
later, the dream challenges
us yet. It is alive because it is
not static.
The dream of equal rights
and equal opportunity, of being judged for character, not
color, has transformed this
nation. Much progress has
been forged, yet much remains to be done.
One way to think about the
Civil Rights Movement and
Dr. King’s dream is as a symphony of freedom. The first
movement was the movement to end slavery, which
required the bloodiest war in
American history. Then came
the drive to end segregation
or the “disfiguring” of legal
apartheid of the South.
In that victory, the movement freed not only African-Americans but also the
South, allowing it to grow.
It opened access to libraries
and hotels, trains and restaurants, pools and parks. Rosa
Parks could sit wherever she
wanted to on that bus.
The third movement was
the movement for empowerment, for the right to vote.
That movement culminated
in the Voting Rights Act of
1965, challenging the various
taxes and tests and intimida-
tion used to deprive AfricanAmericans of the power of
the ballot box.
This year, the five conservatives on the Supreme Court
weakened that act. Conservative governors and legislators are pushing to constrict
rather than expand the vote.
So we still have no constitutional right to vote. Surely,
that is the next step toward
the dream.
The fourth movement
of the freedom symphony
features the trumpet call
for equal opportunity and
the clash over extreme and
growing inequality. Here,
Lyndon Johnson’s promise to
fulfill the movement’s pledge
that “we shall overcome” has
been frustrated.
African-Americans
continue to suffer twice the unemployment as whites. Poor
people of color, often isolated in ghettos and barrios,
have less access to healthy
food, good schools, public
parks and safe streets. Inequality is the new de facto
segregation, with the affluent
withdrawing to gated communities and private schools,
and the poor huddled in impoverished neighborhoods.
Dr. King knew this final
movement was the most difficult. He saw Johnson’s war
on poverty being lost in the
costly folly of Vietnam. He
worried that we might be
“integrating into a burning
house.” He was murdered
while standing with sanitation workers organizing for
dignity and a decent wage.
When he died, he was organizing a new march on
Washington - a Poor People’s
Campaign that would bring
the impoverished of all races
and regions to a “Resurrection City” in Washington,
D.C., to demand a renewal of
the war on poverty.
The fourth movement - the
movement for real equality
of opportunity - remains unfinished. Its agenda speaks to
poor and working people of
all races: full employment, a
living wage, child nutrition,
a good public education from
pre-K to affordable college,
high-quality health care, affordable housing in vibrant
communities, workers empowered to share in the profits and productivity they help
to produce.
We have gained freedom
without equality. Globalized
capital and communications
have been used to push workers down rather than lift them
up. We continue to squander
scarce resources policing the
globe. Inequality has grown
worse, and the middle class
is sinking.
The symphony of freedom
is unfinished, but its powerful themes still resound and
stir its listeners. Dr. King
called on each of us to march
for justice. He understood
the power of people of conscience when they decide
to act. As we remember his
dream, we are called to action, for there is more work
to be done.
Jesse L. Jackson Sr. is
founder and president of
the Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition. You
can keep up with his work at
www.rainbowpush.org.
By Julianne Malveaux
NNPA Columnist
Every time I
hear the voice
of Russell Simmons, I hear
a cool, clean,
clear meditative voice, especially on Twitter where he
drops his yoga knowledge
in a reflective way. I guess
he wasn’t folding his legs
and saying a centered “Om”
when he decided to ridicule
an African American woman.
How did his voice distort
itself to decide that he would
post a You-Tube video on a
space where everybody could
watch a so-called parody of
“Harriet Tubman” having sex
with her white slave master
with the intent of filming it
and blackmailing him?
How could he, this forward-focused man, decide to
demean an emancipation heroine? Choose to demean her
by making her a sexual object? Even as he took the offensive tape off his website,
please tell me, somebody,
what Simmons was thinking?
In my first draft of this
column, I called this man a
“brother,” but really I mean
the brother from another
mindset.
Harriet Tubman is credited for freeing more than
400 enslaved people. She is
credited for pulling a gun on
some who ambivalently embarked on the Under Ground
Railroad, then wanted to turn
back to “massa.” It’s complicated, but no matter how
complicated it was, the depiction of Harriet Tubman as
a sex object is not only disparaging to a freedom fighter
but to every black woman
who stands on Tubman’s
shoulders.
Nearly 20 years ago, Professor Anita Hill stared down
a Senate Committee and
spoke of the sexual harassment she experienced from
now Associate Justice Clarence Thomas. The judiciary
committee dismissed her
claims as “erotomania.” Interestingly, others who had
similar claims were not allowed to testify.
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Dear CARES Supporters,
I attended the O magazine screening of our
friend Lee Daniels’ brilliant new film, The Butler,
followed by a powerful
interview with the lead
actors and producer conducted by Gayle King.
Oprah stars in the film, her
first in 15 years, and already there is Oscar buzz
for her - she gives a performance that will take
your breath away.
Lee Daniels’ masterful work tells our people’s
story and is one of the most
meaningful and moving
films I have ever seen. Not
only does it travel into the
heart of what Jim Crow
was for African-Americans
- and the mighty struggle
it birthed - but it brings to
life that which we rarely
see on screen: what love
and tenderness between a
black man and woman look
and feel like. It brings forth
memory of who we are and
what we are going to reclaim through our healing
Despite the best legal representation out there, Hill
was excoriated in the media. From my perspective,
her best statement was “they
don’t know me,” her response
to those who used minutia to
claim special knowledge of
her life and daily living.
When you don’t know
African-American women, it
is easy and lazy to reduce us
to stereotypes. Does Russell
Simmons know Harriett Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Ida
B. Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, Sadie TM Alexander,
and Mary McLeod Bethune?
Does he know Coretta Scott
King, Myrlie Evers, Betty
Shabazz, C. Delores Tucker?
Does he know us, or does he
simply see us as the fodder
for parodies?
The Simmons drama is especially offensive because
when we have AfricanAmerican people lifted up,
the lifting is mostly about
men. Still, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would not have
made it without the enthusiasm of Coretta Scott King.
Harriett Tubman saved
hundreds of enslaved people, yet her name is rarely
lifted when we speak of
emancipation. It would appear that African-American
women’s role in our history
is neither admired nor appreciated. When our brothers
call the roll, she is given no
credence, unless it is an afterthought.
Brother Simmons, if you
just picked up a history book,
you’d find African-American
women who have made a
major difference in our lives
and in our movement. Do
you know Ella Baker, the
stalwart sister who stood
beside and behind Dr. King
and others to do organizing
work? Do you know Professor Joyce Lander who before
being an academic was a tireless civil rights worker? Do
you know Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Congresswoman Maxine
Waters? Or a bit younger, do
you know Congresswomen
Yvette Clark or Donna Edwards?
The works these women
TO
THE
work.
The challenge with ensuring that historical black
films are made is that white
Hollywood maintains that
we do not attend movies
like this. Of course, this is
not true, but the perception
persists, as even George
Lucas noted about his battle to get Red Tails made.
So when truth-tellers like
Lee go out to finance their
movies, the push for support is always a huge one.
Lee’s lead actors worked
without pay, and our beloved Oprah was an investor. Lee Daniels’ The Butler is a gift to our children,
community and country.
Truth-telling is a pathway
to healing the racism that is
hurting our people and this
nation.
Here is what I am asking:
Let’s all get out with family
and friends and ensure that
The Butler is a box-office
hit and that the industry
knows we want films by
us and about us. Please be
intentional and spread the
have done and continue to do
is possible because they stand
on the shoulders of Harriett
Tubman and other ancestors.
Your apology doesn’t address
the mindset that allowed this
parody in the first place, the
dozens of editors, producers,
and assistants who saw nothing wrong with this, and the
many Simmons “fans” who
laughed at the depiction of a
historical figure such as Harriet Tubman as a sexual object who used her vagina for
“freedom.”
It is as if you are laughing
at every black woman who
was enslaved and had no
choice when “massa” decided to rape her repeatedly. It
is as if you do not recognize
the painful history of every
black woman who was raped,
not only during slavery, but
thereafter, when the goal was
to keep black men “in line”
by violating black women.
It is as if you put myopic
blinders around your eyes
and chose to ignore history
and its resultant pain. Can
you imagine (which often
happened) the violation of a
child, a violation so intense
that baby girls who dreamed
of being mothers were told
they could not have children? The is the consequence
of rape.
Russell Simmons, once
upon a time, you were the
ambassador of a generation.
Even now, people are mesmerized by your gentle manner, your quest for peace and
spirituality and your practice
of yoga and Pilates. Now
wrap your spirituality around
your video and tell us where
the two intersect. How could
you? Why would you? How
dare you?
When you diminish our
legacy for entertainment purposes, “pulling” the video
is not enough. You need to
work at eliminating a mindset that makes you and others
think that the denigration of
African-American women is
okay.
Julianne Malveaux is a
Washington,
D.C.-based
economist and writer. She is
President Emerita of Bennett College for Women in
Greensboro, N.C.
EDITOR
Taylor
word widely among your
extended network to take a
couple of hours to see The
Butler, which stars not only
Oprah but also the magnificent Forest Whitaker and
Terrence Howard.
I promise you that the
support you give The Butler will be returned to you
in understanding and pride
- again and again and again.
In solidarity and service,
Susan L. Taylor
Founder and CEO
National CARES Men
toring Movement
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Spiritual Warfare
By Sandra Jenkins
We all may
have seen or heard
about the three
girls that were held
captive in Cleveland for many
years against their
will and probably wondered how
they made it through the daily turmoil.
The captives probably wondered
each day, “Will we ever be free?”
“Will I ever see my family again?”
I imagine that on most days, their
thought process was in the negative
and their minds clouded by Satan’s
repetitive words that they would
never be free, never see their family
again and/or even that their captivity was a result of something they
had done.
There are thousands of Christians who are going through captivity, daily turmoil and living in
spiritual darkness. Those girls may
have been physically and mentally
tormented, cast down, defeated and
distraught but they were eventually
freed from their captor. We are under attack from the enemy and it is
spiritual warfare that is going on.
As a Christian, you may be
feeling spiritually tormented, cast
down, defeated and/or distraught
and do not know how to get free
or get victory but just know that if
you seek God, you too can be freed.
God will give you light on how to
have victory in your present state
and help you win every battle in the
future.
2 Corinthians 10:4-5 reads: “For
the weapons of our warfare are not
carnal, but mighty through God to
the pulling down of strong holds;
casting down imaginations and
every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God,
and bringing into captivity every
thought to the obedience of Christ.”
Warfare begins in the mind and
that area of our thoughts is a battle-
ground that leads to captivity. Thousands of ungodly thoughts enter our
minds and can and will spread to
other areas of our lives if we are not
careful. For example, growing up,
I read Harlequin Romance novels
and believed that life was “happily
ever after.” So, I took the lives of
those characters from my reading
and assumed that that was the way
my life would be. What I didn’t
know was that “happily ever after”
requires a lot of work which will be
my topic for the next time.
Wicked imagination is from Satan and we have to pull down the
strongholds on our lives which can
be depression, idolatry, adultery,
sexual immorality, jealousy, resentment, anger, gluttony, pride, lying
and envy just to name a few and
cast down his evil thoughts.
Satan’s primary attack is on the
mind because he can begin a battle
with our thoughts which will lead
to living in darkness. We fill our
minds with television and radio
programs, magazines, social media and conversations that are not
pleasing to God but satisfying for
Satan and through these mediums
we are captured. Few Christians
realize this fact and take little care
guarding their minds.
The enemy’s approach is to drop
“a thought” into our minds and then
want us to accept it and act upon it.
We have to cast down those imaginations, pull down those strong
holds and bring every thought into
the captivity of God.
Thoughts or even one thought
can become a stronghold. Satan’s
lying thoughts can have a strong
hold on you or hold you strongly.
For example, at the age of 30 I really started to sink into depression.
During that time, my mother died
and that started the downward spiral. As I reflect back to the years
before 30, I had some depression
but it wasn’t as magnified. Almost
15 years later, I recognized that depression had me in captivity of fear,
shame, and anger. As a maturing
Christian, I realize that even though
depression can be a medical condition, it can become a stronghold
in the spiritual sense and it can be
brought under control by condemning and casting out and down those
thoughts Satan tries to place in my
mind and spirit.
As a Christian, I knew that a
mighty weapon to fight Satan
with after I had cast down his evil
thoughts was the word of God.
Did I always turn to the word? No.
Why? I had received a thought
from the enemy that I allowed to
become a stronghold in my life for
an extended amount of time. I held
on to that stronghold and it produced imaginations in my mind. I
imagined all the sorrows if my life
was abnormal and these imaginations produced fear which later led
to shame and anger.
A mighty lie from the enemy
placed in my mind was holding
me in a place of sickness, suffering
and torment and made me question
God. Asking God how long was not
the correct choice, but I should have
asked myself how long? How long,
Sandra, will you permit or accept
this? But I thank God for discernment because through Him, I was
able to pull down my stronghold
of depression and cast down those
imaginations. Yes, there are still
times depression tries to sneak in to
take hold of me, but I recognize the
game and I take hold of it.
Isaiah 54: 17 tell us that, “No
weapon formed against thee shall
prosper; and every tongue that shall
rise against thee in judgments thou
shalt condemn. This is the heritage
of the servants of the Lord, and their
righteousness is of me, saith the
Lord.” First you must bring every
thought into the captivity of God
and when you do, you are bringing
every thought under the dominion
of the word of God. You should devour the word like you would your
favorite food and when your mind
n
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is full of scriptures, you are ready
for the counter-attack and there is
no room for Satan’s thoughts or
lies. You need to make the devil’s
thoughts bow to the infallible word
of God.
Next, you have to pull the sword
of the Spirit everyday and beat the
devil down with it. When your feet
hit the floor every morning, you
shouldn’t stand but instantly slide
to your knees and make a declaration that Satan has no place in your
life today. Let him know he is defeated. Let him know that his name
is not on your mortgage, your car,
or your paycheck; neither as the
sole provider nor as the co-provider. Let him know that on yours,
your spouse’s and children’s birth
certificate that his name is not listed
as the father. When you fill your
mind with thoughts from the Lord
and His word, there is no room for
Satan’s thoughts and he will flee.
Finally, after you have condemned the thought or thoughts,
rebuked Satan, and cast down and
out the wicked imaginations, you
have to renew your mind (Romans
12:1, 2). Live in the Lord, walk
daily with God, and learn to think
like God thinks about salvation,
forgiveness, mercy, sickness, healing, deliverance, love, and goodness, etc.
If you delight and meditate in the
law of the Lord, you can pull down
strongholds and cast down imaginations.
Sandra Jenkins is a servant of
God who loves sharing the good
news of Jesus Christ through
speaking and /or writing. The
Madison resident is the founder
of Divine Daughters of Destiny,
Incorporated/ 3D Ministry. She
and her husband, Darryl, are the
parents of two children: Darrilyn
Alexandria and Matthew Adam.
She is a member College Hill M. B.
Church. She may be contacted by
calling 601-201-5176 or e-mailing
[email protected].
Is T.D. Jakes compromising ministry
by inviting Oprah to MegaFest?
By Ramon Mayo
Oprah is a Mississippi native whose name is synonymous
with money, superstar status, and
worldwide influence. She’s met
with presidents and entertainers
and is adored by everyday people.
Now, she is collaborating with
one of the most well-known clergymen in the African-American
community - T.D. Jakes.
Oprah’s name is synonymous
with philanthropy and good
works. But for me, I think it is
also synonymous with anti-Christian beliefs. So why would T.D.
Jakes, a preacher of Christ’s Gospel, put his stamp of approval on
Oprah’s Lifeclass by inviting her
to MegaFest - a conference he will
host in Dallas, August 29 - 31.
Designed for families, the conference attracts the best and brightest in ministry and entertainment
and while not completely spiritual, it does have spiritual components, as it combines many of
Jakes signature conferences such
as “Woman Thou Art Loosed”
and “ManPower” into one threeday weekend experience.
According to Bishop Jakes,
he’s collaborating with a major
influencer such as Oprah to tackle
a plague that affects many in the
African-American community father wounds and fatherlessness.
Indeed reaching out to the fatherless and those with father wounds
is a noble cause, but should Jakes
solicit the help of someone who
has openly espoused unorthodox
views of Christ? In the past, pas-
tors and Christian artists have
been criticized for partnering
with so-called worldly entertainers. Creflo Dollar sent many in
and outside of the church into a
state of shock when he appeared
in Jermaine Dupri’s “Welcome
to Atlanta” video and Christian
hip-hop artist Lecrae came under fire when he partnered with
mainstream DJ and producer
Don Cannon to release a mixtape
entitled “Church Clothes.” Given
this, it is sometimes confusing to Jakes
know where to draw the line, but
some principles from Scripture more like Buddhism and it seems
can help us as we look at the part- to be Christianity only in nomennership between T.D. Jakes and clature. That’s troubling for me, to
say the least.
Oprah.
As far as T.D. Jakes collaboratFirst, we need to understand
what Oprah’s Lifeclass is about. ing with a person who espouses
In a video statement, Jakes said, these beliefs, the Bible does have
“She’s not a preacher and it’s not some things to say. One of the main
texts of Scripture that
a Bible class. I didn’t
COMMENTARY we can look to is 2
ask her to preach, I
Corinthians 6:14-16a:
asked her to bring
“14 Do not be yoked together
a LifeClass.” The LifeClass is
a self-help program designed to with unbelievers. For what do
help viewers live their best life righteousness and wickedness
(sounds like a famous pastor who have in common? Or what fellowhas also been on Oprah’s show) ship can light have with darkness?
and draws upon the lessons and 15 What harmony is there between
Christ and Belial? Or what does a
stories from Oprah’s past shows.
Second, we need to understand believer have in common with an
Oprah’s spiritual beliefs. Oprah unbeliever? 16 What agreement is
has confessed that she is a Chris- there between the temple of God
tian, but I think it is a very particu- and idols? For we are the temple
lar kind of Christian. She believes of the living God.”
This passage is often used to
that God is an impersonal force.
She believes that Jesus did not discourage believers from entercome to die on the Cross, but to ing business or social partnerships
show us how to live. She believes with unbelievers-especially marthat God can be found within. For riage. But the passage’s original
me, this type of Christianity is intent was not to prohibit contracts
Oprah
and agreements with unbelievers
in general, but to focus on believers not joining unbelievers in sin
or in situations that may compromise their beliefs.
So the question I ask is: “Will
inviting Oprah to MegaFest be
joining her in sin or compromising the beliefs of TD Jakes
Ministries?” This is a tough one.
Oprah doesn’t promote herself as
a preacher, yet she influences millions globally.
They are clearly collaborating
on something that affects many
Americans, regardless of spiritual background - the epidemic of
fatherlessness. So it’s hard to tell
whether T.D. Jakes is compromising his beliefs, but we do know
that in this endeavor both he and
Oprah need our prayers.
Ramon Mayo resides in Chicago and works as a specialist for
adult media developer for Urban
Ministries Inc. He is author of
“His Story, Our Story” a 31-day
Black History Devotional. Visit
his blog ramonmayo.com.
Message from the Religion Editor
By Daphne Higgins
Religion Editor
Another special
day in my life has
come and gone but
the joy of that day
will continue to
grow inside of my
heart.
August 19, a date that I will forever cherish as one of my favorite days
ever because it is the birth date of
my oldest child, my only daughter,
and the person who stole my heart in
ways that I never imagined possible.
To all the parents, grandparents
and loved ones of someone very special in your life, I’m sure that you can
share a similar sentiment so I want to
thank you for allowing me to indulge
at this moment, as I share the joys I
have experienced with my baby; my
beautiful 19 year old daughter.
I know that I speak for my husband when I tell you that the years
have gone by so fast. The toddler
years were scary; the pre-adolescent
years were adventurous; the high
school years were busy and now
she’s 19 years old and in her second
year of college. She’s considered by
many agencies to be an adult, but
yet, she is still a little girl who needs
her mom and dad for so many things
that she’s not prepared to do yet. Yes,
we’re wondering where the time has
gone.
This young one has always been a
straight “A” student while completing grades K-12 with no absences or
tardies from school. She was active
in several school organizations and
church ministries and has continued
this work ethic as a student at one of
the greatest university’s in the world,
Jackson State University.
I often call her my “Mini Me” but
her proper name is Charence Monique. She is studious, articulate, and
gifted in so many ways. She’s truly
our gift from God.
We are very proud to have a teenage daughter who would do anything
for her younger brother. Yes, they
definitely have their bothersome sibling moments but yet they have one
of the greatest relationships a parent
could ask for. They enjoy each other,
love each other and protect each other. They are an awesome pair.
I could go on and on about the angel that God blessed us with 19 years
ago, but I won’t. I will, however, ask
you that you pray a prayer of encour-
Charence Higgins
agement for our child(ren) as well as
a prayer of continued growth in the
Lord.
I am a firm believer that children
are gifts from God. Psalms 127:3
tells us: “Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the
womb a reward.”
Please join us in sharing the joy
of being given a wonderful gift
from God by telling others about
the blessings that He has given you.
Share your joy with others as often
as you can and let The Mississippi
Link be one of the vehicles of communication that you use to convey
that love.
The Mississippi Link, a messenger
for news in and around the state of
Mississippi, would like to serve as
your personal messenger to share
your good news and the news of
your place of worship and visit.
As always, we ask that you let
us help you to communicate the
good news of our Lord. Isaiah 52:7a
reads, “What a beautiful sight it is to
see messengers coming with good
news!”
The King James Version of Isaiah 52:7b reads, “Your God reigns”.
His presence is everywhere and so
should the news of His love for all of
His children.
The Mississippi Link, a messenger
for news in and around the state of
Mississippi, would like to not only
share your news but all who would
like to tell others about the Lord’s
goodness and about their places of
worship and even those religious institutions that are visited.
Contact Daphne M. Higgins at
[email protected]. Fax
601-896-0091 or mail your information to The Mississippi Link, 2659
Livingston Road, Jackson, MS 39213.
R ei g n i n g A n n o u n c eme n ts
Farish Street Baptist Church, 619 N. Farish St., Jackson, is
currently celebrating 31 Days in August. During this celebration, each day August is filled with spiritual enjoyment and
uplift, from learning to preaching to teaching to issue discussion to music. Events for the remainder of the month include:
Thursday and Friday, August 22–23, an “Issues Forum” will
be held, followed by a JazzSpel Saturday, August 24, at 6
p.m. The final week of the celebration will include noon-day
prayers and later that evening, revival services, Monday
through Thursday, August 26-29. AugustFest will end the
month-long celebration August 31, with a Best Man Cook-off
from 4-7 p.m. The Mississippi Mass choir will be the featured
guest. For more information call 601.355.0636.
Holy Temple Missionary Baptist Church, 5077 Cabiniss Circle,
Jackson, The Women’s Ministry will host its 2013 God’s Chosen Women Conference “Women of Excellence: Recognizing
Who You Are” Friday - Sunday, August 23-25. Opening Night
Praise and Worship guest speaker will be Rev. Debra Divinity of New Vineyard Church, Jackson. Panel discussions and
workshops will take place Saturday, at 8 a.m. Speakers will include Prophetess Sandra Dennis, Jessica Pickett, Evangelist
Voncele Savage, along with the JPD Crimes Against Persons
representatives and end with Lannie Spann McBride. Events
will culminate Sunday with a message from Rev. Audrey L.
Hall, pastor of Holy Temple. For more information about this
free event, call 769-823-9832 or 601.503.5932.
Priestley Chapel M.B. Church, 177 Virlilia Rd., Canton, will host
its Annual Fall Revival Monday-Wednesday, August 26-28, beginning at 7 p.m. nightly. Guest speakers: Monday, Rev. Freddie Carson, South Liberty M.B. Church, Canton; Tuesday, Rev.
Dennis Grant, Jerusalem Baptist, Brandon; Wednesday, Rev.
Keith Rouser, Ridley Hill M.B. Church, Madison. The theme:
“Restore Unto Me the Joy of My Salvation”. Rev. Robert McCallum is pastor. For more information call 601-859-8449.
August 22 - 28, 2013
Keep your eyes on truth - Part I
By Pastor Simeon R. Green III
“For though
we walk in the
flesh, we do
not war after
the flesh. For
the weapons of
our warfare are
not carnal but mighty in God
for pulling down strongholds,
casting down arguments and
every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of
God, bringing every thought
into captivity to the obedience
of Christ, and being ready to
punish all disobedience when
your obedience is fulfilled.” (2
Corinthians 10:3-6)
There are many strongholds
today that need to be torn
down. Christian friend, we
are in a spiritual battle. It is
a battle of right versus wrong
or light against darkness. Sad
to say, people who once stood
against the false doctrine are
going back and picking up that
false teaching.
Some people take certain
teachings and manipulate
them to the degree that people
are confused in their thinking,
and confusion leads to doubts
and fears. So many people
are confused. We are living
in a confused nation. Some
false teachings may look good
on the outside, but when you
start analyzing them with the
help of the Holy Spirit, you
can clearly see that they are as
false as they ever were.
My friend, you need to stay
with Jesus Christ. Stay with
the truth and do not waiver.
You cannot go wrong when
you obey truth. You can stay in
the center of God’s Will when
you keep your eyes on truth
and allow God to direct your
life. If you deviate from truth,
you will be left wide open to
false teachings and the enemy’s snares. If you are wide
open to the enemy’s snares,
you will have nothing upon
which to build your life, and
you will not have any stability.
Too many people are holding
onto something, but it is not
the right thing. If you are not
holding onto Jesus Christ, that
which you are holding onto is
false; it will not stand when
the trials come. Truth will not
leave you on your own. If you
stay in the center of God’s
Will, truth will lead you forward and it will be right there
with you all the way.
Truth is something that
should never grow old to you.
It should be fresh and new
every day. It is something to
rejoice about and tell others.
You should not let the enemy
silence you. When you start
to doubt and fear, the enemy
knows what he can use to silence you, so that you do not
tell anyone else about the
goodness of God.
As a Christian, you are to
tell others about His goodness.
If they do not hear it from you,
who are they going to hear it
from? They are not going to
hear it from the world.
Luke-warmness means that
one has cooled off when it
comes to the things of God.
Often the enemy places doubts
in a person’s mind about truth
and the goodness of God.
When a person first gets saved,
he cannot wait to tell others
about it because he knows
personally that something has
happened to him.
He does not do sinful things
anymore. However, if he is
not careful, the enemy will
put doubts and fears in his
mind and Luke-warmness will
slowly creep in. Revelation
3:16 says, “So then because
thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue
thee out of my mouth.” Lukewarmness makes God sick. It
does not happen overnight. It
occurs gradually and it leads
to other things such as becoming critical of others, possessing a faultfinding spirit, finger
pointing and backbiting. It
does not lead to anything good
or positive; it always leads to
the negative.
To get anywhere in this
Christian race, you must move
forward spiritually. Also, you
cannot wear your feelings on
your sleeve, so to speak. If you
are a Christian, people are going to say things about you and
do things to you.
Nevertheless, you need to
grow in the things of God and
move forward with God so that
you can eliminate doubts and
fears. When you keep moving
up, the spiritual view keeps
getting better, because you are
moving to a higher plane of
holiness.
If you stay in one place for
too long, you may start finding
fault with other people. What
have you done for the Lord
lately?
Next week, August 29, Part
II - “Keep your eyes on truth.”
Rev. Simeon R. Green III is
pastor of Crossroads Church
of God in Farmhaven (Canton), Miss., and is married to
Velma L. Green. He honorably
served in the U.S. Army for 20
years. Presently, Rev. Green
is a member of the National
Association of Evangelism
Church of God, Anderson, Ind.
He serves as vice-chairman at
the Southeastern Association
of The Church of God, Inc.
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By Shewanda Riley
Columnist
This week
marks the 50th
Anniversary
of the historic March of
Wa s h i n g t o n .
In this week’s
column, I wanted to revisit the
well-known speech by Rev.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and
highlight its points supported
by scriptures. Below are selected quotes as well as related
scriptures.
“But we refuse to believe
that the bank of justice is
bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient
funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we
have come to cash this check,
a check that will give us upon
demand the riches of freedom
and security of justice.”
Follow justice and justice
alone, so that you may live and
possess the land the Lord your
God is giving you. - Deuteronomy 16:20
“We have also come to
this hallowed spot to remind
America of the fierce urgency
of Now. This is not the time to
engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now
is the time to make real the
promise of democracy.”
For I am ready to set things
right, not in the distant future,
but right now. I am ready to
save Jerusalem and show my
glory to Israel. - Isaiah 46:13
“Now it the time to rise from
the dark and desolate valley of
segregation to the sunlit path
of racial justice. Now it the
time to lift our nation from the
quicksands of racial injustice
to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make
justice a reality to all of God’s
children.”
I waited patiently for the
Lord; And He inclined to me,
And heard my cry. He also
brought me up out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay,
And set my feet upon a rock,
And established my steps…
Many will see it and fear, And
will trust in the Lord. - Psalm
40:1-2, 3b
“Nineteen sixty-three is not
an end but a beginning. Those
who hope that the colored
Americans needed to blow off
steam and will now be content
will have a rude awakening if
the nation returns to business
as usual.”
The Lord gives righteousness and justice to all who are
treated unfairly. - Psalm 103:6
“You have been the veterans
of creative suffering. Continue
to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.”
My brethren, count it all joy
when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of
your faith produces patience.
But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be
perfect and complete, lacking
nothing. - James 1:2-4
“This is our hope. This is the
faith that I will go back to the
South with. With this faith we
will be able to hew out of the
mountain of despair a stone of
hope.”
Now faith is confidence in
what we hope for and assurance about what we do not
see. - Hebrew 11:1
For more information on
Dr. King, please visit The King
Center, www.thekingcenter.org
or the National Martin Luther
King Memorial, www.nps.gov/
mlkm.
Shewanda Riley is the author of the Essence best-seller
“Love Hangover: Moving
From Pain to Purpose after a
Relationship Ends.” She can
be reached at lovehangover@
juno.com, at www.shewandariley.com or www.anointedauthorsontour.com
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from knocking off Madison Central
in the jungle last season, but couldn’t
hold on. It appeared that loss hung
over them all season. New season,
new Mustangs. Armed with one of
the top players in the state, Murrah
is looking to establish themselves
early as a serious team. Expect
Hazlehurst to be a rude house guest.
They would love nothing more than
to spoil the opener for Murrah while
letting everyone else know that the
Indians are once again for real.
So get your popcorn ready, grab
the family, and go check out some
exciting high school football action!
SWAC releases 2013 preseason volleyball team
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The
Southwestern Athletic Conference
announced its 2013 SWAC Preseason Volleyball teams with Paige
Williams (Jackson State) and Luiza
Griz (Alabama State) tabbed with
player of the year honors.
Williams was voted SWAC Preseason Volleyball Player of the Year
with Griz selected as the Defensive
Player of the Year.
The All-SWAC Preseason Vol-
leyball teams and predicted order of
finish was voted on by the conference coaches and sport information
contacts. Points were compiled on a
5-4-3-2-1 basis for the predicted order of finish while head coaches and
sport information contacts were not
allowed to vote for his or her team.
Five schools posted at least two
players on this year’s team with
Alabama State, Texas Southern,
Prairie View A&M, and Alabama
A&M producing the most selec-
tions with three. ASU registered
the most players on the first team
landing all three selections. Jackson
State’s two picks were also named
to the first team.
Last season, Williams (MB •
6-1 • Sr. • Arlington, Texas) led the
SWAC in blocks with 102 averaging 1.17 per game. She helped JSU
lead the league in blocks with 290
overall posting a team average of
2.27. The Lady Tigers captured the
East Division title before winning a
consecutive tournament title behind
22-match win streak. During the
2012 regular season, she received
SWAC Defensive Player of the
Week on three occasions en route to
All-SWAC First Team and Tournament team honors.
In 2012, Griz (DS • 5-7 • Sr. •
Recife, Brazil) was named SWAC
Defensive Player of the Year while
receiving a first-team selection to
All-SWAC Volleyball. She finished
third in the SWAC and accounted
for more than 25 percent of ASU’s
digs recording 399 for a 3.2 per
game average. She was tagged defensive player of the week twice
last year.
Griz and Williams join outside
hitters Chelsey Scott (Alabama
State), Mona Reed (Texas Southern), Rachel Owens (Prairie View
A&M), middle blocker Mikayla
Rolle (Jackson State), and setter
Brooke Beasley (Alabama State)
on the All-SWAC First Team.
In the predicted order of finish
in the Eastern Division, last season’s tournament championJackson State garnered 86 points with
15 first-place votes to become the
preseason favorite. Alabama A&M
followed with 66 votes with Alabama State (61), Mississippi Valley
State (46), and Alcorn State (31)
closing out the prediction.
Prairie View A&M was tabbed
the Western Division preseason
winners with 82 points and 12 firstplace votes. Texas Southern totaled
78 points and seven first-place
votes for second with ArkansasPine Bluff (51), Southern (47) and
Grambling State (37) closing out
the division.
2013 ALL SWAC VOLLEYBALL PRESEASON TEAMS
Player of the Year
Paige Williams - Jackson State
First Team
Outside Hitters
Chelsey Scott - Alabama State
Mona Reed - Texas Southern
Rachel Owens - Prairie View
JSU’s Paige Williams was named the
SWAC Preseason Player of the Year
A&M
Middle Blockers / Middle Hitters
Mikayla Rolle - Jackson State
Paige Williams - Jackson State
Setter
Brooke Beasley - Alabama State
Libero
Luiza Griz - Alabama State
Defensive Player of the Year
Luiza Griz - Alabama State
August 22 - 28, 2013
Women for Progress First Tuesday luncheon features
Mayor Chokwe Lumumba at the Penguin Restaurant
By Zakiya Summers
Women for Progress of Mississippi (WFP) hosted its First
Tuesday Lunch and Learn for
August at the Penguin Restaurant. Their special guest was
City of Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, a strong supporter of WFP.
During his keynote address,
Lumumba expressed his sincere thanks to WFP for all of its
support as well as talked about
his priorities as the city’s chief
executive officer. Those priorities include infrastructure improvement, job creation, and
youth development programs.
The goal of the monthly luncheons, held each First Tuesday, is to inform, educate and
engage more women in the political policy making process.
Founded 35 years ago, WFP
is a catalyst for change and believes progress emanates from
awareness. WFP informs the
community of the problems
and issues of our time: issues
with education, politics, business, community and family.
WFP members are committed to promote advocacy and
help women build the skills
and expertise to become effective leaders in the workplace,
community and the home “improving our community
through effective action and
leadership.”
The organization has donated time, effort and resources
to the metro Jackson area and
partners with local non-profits
and organizations to identify
and meet vital needs of women
and children in our communities.
WFP core projects: Women
for Progress Radio, Women
for Progress Action Forums,
Project Aspire - leadership development for young girls and
boys, and the WFP Cookbook
- “A Tribute to Womanhood”
via a collection of recipies
celebrating the contributions
of people of color to the art of
cooking.
The next Lunch and Learn
is scheduled for First Tuesday,
September 3, 2013.
For more information, log
on to www.womenforprogress.
net
WFP President Willie Jones making presentation to Mayor Lumumba.
Zakiya Summers moderates question and answer session with Mayor Lumumba.
Irene German, WFP historian and Yolanda Grant, WFP member. photos by Tameka Garrett
WFP members standing with Mayor Lumumba.
August 22 - 28, 2013
Book Review:
“Gloria
–
A
Novel”
Kerry Young
by
c.2013, Bloomsbury $17.00 / $18.00 Canada • 389 pages
By Terri Schillchemeyer
Book Reviewer
Do you know yourself
well enough? You know your
height and weight. Favorite
color, sense of humor, likes
and dislikes, history and mysteries. Sure, you know yourself better than anybody. Or
do you?
There were things that happened before you were born
that you’ll never hear about,
things that occurred when
you were small and can’t remember, things your spouse
doesn’t mention, your parents
never told you, your children keep quiet. And in the
new novel “Gloria” by Kerry
Young, some secrets run even
deeper.
His hands were rough! Sixteen-year-old Gloria Campbell remembered that, as she
bashed Barrington Maxwell’s
head in. She didn’t plan to
kill him, but when she heard
her younger sister Marcia’s
screams, she reacted rashly.
Maxwell was doing to Marcia what he’d done to Gloria
not long before. He wouldn’t
do it again. But when Maxwell’s body was found, fingers
pointed. Gloria knew that she
and Marcia had to leave their
small village and go to Kingston, where life for young Jamaican women wasn’t easy.
Still, they’d manage.
After struggling with lowpaying jobs that made her
skin crawl, however, Gloria
came to realize that the only
way they’d manage was to sell
themselves to men. She resisted it - how could Marcia even
consider it?
But Sybil, the owner of the
house they’d moved into, said
it was “the only way yu going
mek yuself a life that is your
own….”
Making that life was easier
with the help of Henry Wong,
Gloria’s wealthy friend who
became wealthier by giving
the women money to run a
lending service on the Kingston streets. It helped, too, that
Gloria fell in love with Pao,
the man Henry sent to provide
“protection” from deadbeats.
Pao was a married man, but
he loved Gloria and couldn’t
stop seeing her. She loved him
through her jealousy and felt
safe with him. She couldn’t
understand, though, with Pao’s
history of street enforcement,
why he would become friends
with the new local policeman.
She couldn’t understand why
the new policeman seemed to
have such an interest in her….
And so to the good, this book
does an excellent job in taking
readers to a not-so-innocent
time and place, politically, socially, and economically. And
Crossword Puzzle
I liked that a lot.
While I generally liked
“Gloria” and while I thought
it was, at its core, a very fine
book, I often found it to be
a challenge for a couple of
reasons. Right from the outset, I had trouble with the
“patois” in the dialogue.
Author Kerry Young adds
authenticity here. And while
that ended up being one of
the main things I liked about
the book, I had a hard time
with it initially. The difficulties didn’t last long, but they
do bear mentioning.
The bigger issue, I think,
is that the story drags sometimes. That tended to make
me lose interest. For sure, I
lost track of who was who
because of it.
I think, overall, if you can
bear with the bumps and savor that goodness, you may
like “Gloria” well enough.
Sudoku
The challenge is to fill every row across, every column down, and every
3x3 box with the digits 1 through 9. Each 1 through 9 digit must appear
only once in each row across, each column down, and each 3x3 box.
© Feature Exchange
Cryptogram
A cryptogram is a puzzle where a sentence is encoded by substituting the
actual letters of the sentence with different letters. The challenge of the
puzzle is to ‘decode’ the sentence to reveal the original English sentence.
We have provided a few of the decoded letters to help get you started.
Hint: Quote by Alex Rodriguez
© Feature Exchange
This Week’s Horoscopes
When you make the best of what you
have, the end result can lead to fulfilling
the original dream.
ACROSS
1. Thoughtfulness
5. Blemish
9. Serious
11. Women’s magazine
12. Afloat (2 wds.)
13. Pick
14. Seed bread
15. Pound (abbr.)
17. No
18. Work the soil
20. Chicken serving
22. Executive director
23. Road (abbr.)
24. Brassiere
27. Globes
29. Sandwich cookies brand
31. Opera solo
32. Under, poetically
33. Wildcat
34. Quarry
DOWN
1. Despot
2. Attorney (abbr.)
3. Court suit
4. Fasten
5. Part of a min.
6. Held on tightly
7. God of Islam
8. Depend
10. Texan city
16. Home of the Red Sox
18. High-school subject
19. Salt Lake City locale
20. Fruit
21. Spring birds
22. Fossile fuel
24. Teddy __
25. Memorization
26. Colorless
28. Jazz instrument
30. Representative
© Feature Exchange
1/21 - 2/19
Aquarius
Strut your mental stuff and don't stand still
because it's your abilities that's getting all
the attention!
7/23-8/21
Leo
This week something special and
unexpected might happen, leaving
opportunity for more to come.
2/20 - 3/20
Pisces
You needn't strain yourself this weekend,
in fact, its your kindness and grace that
makes you a real magnet.
8/22 - 9/23
Virgo
Your imagination is invigorated today so
you will need activities and entertainment
that are colorful.
3/21 - 4/20
Aries
This week just move with the music and
swing your partner with abandon.
9/24 - 10/23
Libra
This week you may notice a few events
out of the ordinary and definitely not in
your routine.
4/21 - 5/21
Taurus
You can't manage health issues this week if
you can't acknowledge there's a problem!
10/24 - 11/22
Scorpio
Becoming more eclectic and outspoken
on all issues this week is very likely.
5/22 - 6/21
Gemini
Turning a blind eye to your body's inner
message like not exercising today is part
of the difficulty.
11/23 - 12/22
Sagittarius
The dance is underway this week and
for the moment, you will lead, others
follow in pursuit.
6/22 - 7/22
Cancer
If you sense something isn't quite right
this week, go and fix it!
12/23 - 1/20
Capricorn
(For puzzle answer keys, see page 14)
G E T YOU R CU R R E N T N EWS O N LI N E AT:
© Feature Exchange
ENTERTAINMENT
August 22 - 28, 2013
Steve Harvey’s Ford Neighborhood
Awards Show: A recap of winners
eurweb.com
Needless to say, the 11th Anniversary of Steve Harvey‘s
(Ford sponsored) Neighborhood Awards show in Las Vegas from August 9 to August 11
was quite the success.
The focus of this unique
awards show is to highlight
and acknowledge the entrepreneurial spirit, as well as the impactful agenda of hard working
men and women in twelve diverse areas of business in various neighborhoods throughout
the country, hence, what many
consider the ‘foundations, pillars, and staples’ of the African
American community.
Thought by many nominees
to be a once in a lifetime opportunity to be recognized for their
skills or services in a public forum of this magnitude, these
dedicated individuals have
stood out amongst their peers
in representing the essence of
hard work, tenacity, creativity,
courage, and commitment to
service.
With a solid foundation of
having a meaningful purpose,
the awards show was interspersed with performances by
Fantasia, Mary Mary, Jaheim,
with the iconic, beautiful Chaka
Khan culminating the show.
For the opening set, in typical Fantasia style, the audience
was treated to the barefooted,
lip trembling, penetrating vocals of the songstress in a very
high energy performance. Mary
Mary, always harmonizing
beautifully did not disappoint,
and of course, Jaheim was a
special treat for the ladies with
his smooth voice.
With the comedic antics of
the utmost host, Steve Harvey,
plus George Wallace and Sheryl
Underwood, the audience was
kept in tears laughing between
presentations.
Garnishing the support of
such major sponsors as title
sponsor Ford; State Farm, The
Nielson Company, K & G Fashion Superstore, General Mills,
AARP and many others, the
entire Neighborhood Awards
weekend was executed fittingly
from the all white afterparty, to
the interactive expo, to the concerts, to the beach party. Make
your plans now for next year’s
event.
Prior to the start of The
Neighborhood Awards show
on the evening of August 10,
the blue carpet was graced by
celebrities and celebrity presenters such as Shemar Moore,
Anthony Hamilton, Phylicia
Rashad, Judge Alex, Judge
Mathis, Tamara Tunie, Stephen
A. Smith, Tichina Arnold, Ronreaco Lee, comedians Earthquake, Chubb Rock, George
Wallace and many others.
Categories and winners were
as follows:
BEST
HIGH
SCHOOL
COACH
Larry
Yarbray-Basketball,
Chester High School - Philadelphia, Pa.
BEST NAIL SALON
Poochiez Pawz Nail Studio,
Cara Gaskins - Atlanta, Ga.
BEST SCHOOL TEACHER
Albert T. Lewis, Washington,
D.C.
BEST CAR WASH/DETAIL
Marjorie & Steve Harvey (Neighborhood Awards)
SHOP
Waterline Auto Spa - Philadelphia, Pa.
BEST CHURCH CHOIR
Mount Lebanon Missionary
Baptist Church Unity Choir Norfolk, Va.
BEST SOUL FOOD
Carolina Kitchen Bar and
Grill - Washington, D.C.
BEST BARBER SHOP
Fadeologist Barber Shop Atlanta, Ga.
BEST HIGH SCHOOL
Cass Technical High School Detroit, Mich.
BEST BARBECUE
Big Daddy’s BBQ - Chicago,
Ill.
BEST BEAUTY SALON
John T. Elliott Pro Hair Design - Columbia, S.C.
BEST CHURCH
First Baptist Church of Glenarden - Washington, D.C.
BEST
COMMUNITY
LEADER
Stan Richards - Washington,
D.C.
Lee Thompson Young didn’t leave
a suicide note; death is mystery
eurweb.com
It seems that we might not ever
know why actor Lee Thompson
Young took his life August 19,
2013. That’s because he didn’t
leave behind a suicide note.
Young was found dead in his
apartment in the San Fernando
Valley. Sources say he died from
a gunshot wound that was selfinflicted.
The actor did have a diary, but it
doesn’t appear that any entries can
shed light on the incident, reports
TMZ.
According to witnesses, the actor
was last seen Saturday and authorities believe that he may have shot
himself that day as well.
Friends and associates are
shocked because Young had no
serious life issues that they were
aware of.
Via social media, actress Meagan Good left this touching message about Thompson’s death:
“My Lee .. My friend .. My dear
Friend .. I love you man .. My heart
is so broken .. You are remarkable
.. you are incredible .. Light and
beauty .. So humble and gentle ..
Loving and sweet .. Serious and
thoughtful lol ..it’s like you were
always in touch with something so
transcending - that others couldn’t
even begin to touch it or identify it
.. you lived in that space .. You were
such a special and beautifully different kind of being .. an original ..
Im thinking about all the silly times
lol … the random adventures of
you, me and @mrtyhodges .. Teenagers then young adults on a constant mission … a brilliant mind
Thompson
.. a gorgeous spirit .. I’ll miss you
.. A lot .. You loved me enough to
fearlessly remind me of my worth
.. Thank you .. I pray your Peace …
And everlasting Love wrapped up
in Our Fathers Arms .. I love you
always and always my brother.”
Young was appearing in the
TNT series “Rizzoli & Isles” at the
time of his death.
J-Lo’s boyfriend confirms her
return to ‘American Idol’
eurweb.com
After months of speculation, Jennifer Lopez’s boyfriend let the cat
out of the bag.
Asked whether she is returning to
“American Idol” for its 13th season,
Casper Smart replied: “Yes.”
The problem? FOX has yet to
make any announcement about Lopez’s return. Oops.
Sources are also confirming to
Us Weekly that the 44-year-old entertainer will return to the singing
competition, where she served as
a judge for two previous seasons in
2011 and 2012.
J-Lo will join fellow musician
Keith Urban, who has already
signed on for another consecutive
year. “I can’t talk too much about
it . . . I will confirm one thing is
Keith [Urban] is gonna return to the
show,” FOX chairman Kevin Reilly announced at the 2013 Summer
TCA Press Tour in early August.
He added: “Keith did a great job
last year, the fans really liked him.
Keith’s a really funny guy . . .”
The “Live It Up” singer’s rejoining of the singing competition follows the departures of Season 12
judges, Nicki Minaj, Mariah Carey
and veteran judge Randy Jackson.
Jackson announced his exit in May,
while Carey and Minaj followed
suit later in the month.
J-Lo
Auditions are currently underway for Season 13 of “American
Idol.” A third judge has not yet been
determined.
August 22 - 28, 2013
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